"Imagine a person, tall, lean, and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan..." LONDON, 1913—the era of Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, and the Invisible Man. A time of shadows, secret societies, and dens filled with opium addicts. Into this world comes the most fantastic emissary of evil society has ever known... FU-MANCHU "Fu-Manchu remains the definitive diabolical mastermind of the 20th Century."—Kim Newman, award-winning author of Anno Dracula THE SI-FAN MYSTERIES A sealed box and murder most foul call Nayland Smith and Dr. Petrie back from distant Egypt to the fog-enshrouded streets of London. There they discover that Dr. Fu-Manchu is an agent of a vast and deadly organization—one which will stop at nothing to achieve its ruthless goals.
