Mike Brink has cracked impossible puzzles before, but nothing like this. Invited to Tokyo during the Year of the Wood Dragon, he faces the legendary Dragon Box, a device created by a sadistic genius and sealed by Emperor Meiji himself. For more than a century, every attempt to open it has ended in death.
Now Brink has twenty-four hours to solve it or risk becoming the next casualty. Two rival sisters, descendants of a samurai clan, are just as determined to claim what lies inside. Their ambitions collide with Brink’s quest in a race across Japan from the Imperial Palace to hidden caves where history still breathes.
Inside the Dragon Box lies a treasure of staggering power. But some puzzles should never be solved.
