Seeking to distance himself from the affairs of fallen angels, Oliver Lucas hires out his skills to an enigmatic Japanese business woman who wants him tocapture a rare slat book from a remote Chinese monastery. He soon discovers that the book job was only a warmup for his true assignment: To track down and recover a relic bearing fragments of a mysterious, and potentially magical, language. Oliver travels to China to make contact with a woman believed to be the sole livingsurvivor of a Soviet era psychic research program. Just as Oliver believes he has secured documents that might reveal the location of the relic, another treasure hunter enters the fray, seeking revenge on Oliver for beating her to a prize. Forced to work with a rival as devious and talented as himself, Oliver confronts the dark legacy of the Soviet's psychic experiments and, horribly, discovers his employer's true motives. The fourth novel in theOliver Lucas Adventures series dives headlong into a thrilling talethat fuses stunning locations in Japan, China, and Russia, magical creatures from Asian folklore, and the dark legacy of the Cold War into a nonstop adventure."