In the aftermath of the Great War, a mysterious figure stalks the night.
A terrifying phantom in a grey trench-coat and gas mask emblazoned with the image of a blood-red skull, the Red Specter wreaks vengeance on spies, criminals, and other enemies of the fledgling nation of Kallistrate-or so the whispers say.
For no-one has actually seen the Red Specter and lived to tell the tale: either death or insanity awaits his victims.
And somehow, rookie reporter Joy Song Fan has to find this ghost, this rumor, this urban legend-and get him to sit down for an interview.
She'd much rather be pursuing serious news, but outrageous circumstances have forced her to work for a sleazy tabloid, and this is her last chance. She has to complete this assignment or starve.
But Joy's investigation soon leads her into dangers she never could have foreseen-as she stumbles into a criminal conspiracy of fraudulent psychics, crooked cops, Triad gangsters, pirates, war criminals, human traffickers, and enraged cows.
And, as Joy finds her circumstances growing ever more desperate, her ambitions turn from getting the interview of the century, to simply surviving the night.
