Shanghai, 2010. Three young Americans find themselves caught in the mysterious web of a man known only as "Smith." Smith's world, "Flatland," is terrifying. A place where the past and the present exist with deadly consequences.
Coventry is gone, but Khan is back, this time in the more youthful form of Noel Jagger, a slick, seductive playboy who wastes no time reclaiming his stake atop the criminal underworld of Shanghai.