The third all-action China thriller featuring Li Yan and Margaret Campbell.
Eighteen women, murdered by a skilled surgical hand, are found in a mass gave in Shanghai. The deaths are disturbingly similar to an unsolved case in Beijing - it appears that autopsies have been carried out while the victims were still alive.
Beijing detective Li Yan travels to the capital of China's economic revolution to investigate, and finds the most horrifying catalogue of killings ever uncovered in the Middle Kingdom. American pathologist Margaret Campbell arrives to conduct the autopsies, only to discover her relationship with Li threatened by the policewoman leading the investigation.
But each of them is faced with their own personal nightmare when the investigation uncovers a ruthless killer of inhuman capacity.
