In the twelfth of the perilous adventures of Nayland Smith, the top British agent is once again pitted against the fiendish devices of the keenest criminal genius in history. For Fu-Manchu, long thought dead, is on the scene againand the great cities of London, Cairo and New York know the shadow of his sinister presence...

Sax Rohmer was the acclaimed author of the Fu Manchu series of novels. The first, The Mystery of Fu Manchu, was published in 1912 with many more following. Rohmer also wrote more traditional detective stories and supernatural horror. He died in London in 1959.