Stanton Ware, a brilliant soldier and accomplished linguist, is chosen by the Prime Minister as a secret emissary to report on the situation in China where a rebellion by the war-like Boxers seems certain.
Disguised as a Mandarin, Stanton sets out on a perilous investigation, accompanied only by an exquisitely beautiful woman -- the alluring Zivana, daughter of a Russian prince. Together they avoid deadly perils, until they are drawn into the web of Prince Than, the evil leader of the Boxers...
