Shanghai, 1920s. A young missionary nurse discovers by accident that a conspiracy is being prepared to launch a devastating attack on her country, Great Britain. While she hides from the assassins, Department X, the British Museum's unit in charge of studying and neutralizing the occult and paranormal phenomena, sends to her aid its main investigator, Captain Peter Hunt, an experienced explorer and adventurer. Hunt soon finds himself immersed in a desperate fight against mystical swordsmen, Chinese gangsters, renegade alchemists and a secret nationalist brotherhood that conspires from the shadows to obtain a precious millenary weapon... the red typhoon
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