Song May is a beautiful, capable, undercover agent in the Chinese Secret Service, and an integral part of a program developed by the Chinese Communist Party to train undetectable spies to steal secrets from top U.S. technology companies. She grew up a blue blood of the Party and is considered one of the agency's rising stars. Her current assignment is to monitor an American English teacher who, unbeknownst to him, is training future spies. The espionage is causing extreme paranoia in Silicon Valley and making billions for the Chinese Communist Party. As each month passes, an increasing number of Chinese companies are announcing groundbreaking technologies, listing their shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, and surpassing the technological prowess of even the premier blue-chip U.S. companies. The CIA has no leads, the spies are performing brilliantly, and the Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is basking in the glory. Every facet of the operation is proceeding like clockwork. Nothing can go wrong until little by little hubris and arrogance lead to carelessness and mistakes, threatening the survival of the program. The entire operation begins to unravel, but the Communists will not go down without a fight. They are determined to continue recent successes and preserve the long-term viability of the mission through murder, indoctrination, and intimidation. Song May must ultimately decide between exposing the spy ring and assisting the love of her life in escaping the grip of the Communist Party or honoring her deceased grandfather and protecting her family's reputation by remaining loyal to the Party.