Publisher's Synopsis
In October 1964, as Pearl Green approaches her twentieth birthday in a Hong Kong where the sixties are rocking, China is about to enter the global arms race by detonating the country's first nuclear device. The air is thick with intrigue and the anticipation of trouble, which breaks out when leading nuclear scientist, Dr Lin Dei - ordered to destroy his research results and return to Beijing - murders his supervisor and flees, taking his valuable research papers with him.
