Hong Kong. The world's most glittering, glamorous city, center of untold wealth and power, is now up for grabs as the British hold weakens. In China, che top-secret espionage wing of the Red regime, the Mah-Jongg Brigade, lays its plans to swallow up the crown colony. In Russia, che KGB plots a diabolically brilliant move that would put the city in a Soviet stranglehold. And in Hong Kong itself, Simon Young, heir to a Tai-Pan dynasty, alone holds the key to the salvation or destruction of the city and its millions of people..as a three-sided game turns into a triangle of terror....