Here is the origin of Nicholas Linnear, half English, half Oriental, a man who is about to enter a terrifying world of merciless assasins bound by the blackest codes of honour and skilled in the deadliest of martial arts.

Caught between East and West, a past he can't escape and a destiny he can't avoid, he is trapped in a web of old lust and present passions that will converge in a terrifying moment of revelation and revenge.