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When Eight Countries gang up to plunder an aging empire, only a fool would get in their way. The Brits called it the Boxer Rebellion, but the 'Boxers' called themselves YiHeQuan, Righteous Fist, and they faced off against the Eight Nation Alliance, their ambitious plan being to rid China of foreigners. It was going to be a bloodbath. Our hero, however, had better things to do, opium, female companionship and some innocuous bribery and corrupti...

In exotic and turbulent nineteenth century China, a wise-cracking customs official must discard his opium pipe and his nightly companions to find out who murdered his best friend, a search which embroils him in a geopolitical battle between three empires. Our reluctant hero must risk totrure and death to convince a dilettante Emperor and a depraved and despotic Empress to thwart a German-Japanese plot that threatens to disintegrate the Middle ...