In the not-too-distant future, massive climate change has wracked the world. China’s rice-growing areas have been devastated by typhoons, while its traditional western breadbasket is experiencing three years of drought. Riots threaten to tear the country apart. Using the old-guard Chinese government paralyzed with the crisis, a, charismatic party leader guidelines to the fore. His answer to the unrest is normally a time-tested one-conquest of China’s neighbors.

And after that, the world.

Josh MacArthur, about Larry Bond’s Crimson Dragon Rising: Shadows of War a mild-mannered American scientist learning climate change in north Vietnam, may be the only witness to a smart attempt with the Chinese to make it appear that Vietnam started the war. Escaping a massacre, he manages to assemble critical proof that could turn globe opinion against China.

Unfortunately, the Chinese observe MacArthur’s survival, and of the information he bears. A previous Ch’an fighting monk flipped commando is delivered to capture him. Mara Duncan, a CIA agent, can be on MacArthur’s trail. The American scientist is among the most subject of the deadly race in the jungles of north Vietnam, using the fate from the world in his hands.