The Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Macau, where John Rain is on a tough assignment: take out a ruthless and well-protected international arms dealer and make it look like 'natural causes'. Trouble is, there are others interested in the quarry - with motives counter to Rain's own.

Tracking his man from the casinos of Macau to the alleyways of downtown Hong Kong, Rain will need all his formidable talents to survive. He must face beautiful and lethal foreign agents, martial arts experts - and, most of all, the possibility that his own employers aren't quite what they seem ...