The Bannerman's Prey

In the shadow of the Forbidden City, 1669. A secret society of Manchu nobles known as the "Golden Garden" hunts commoners for sport. When a discharged veteran of the frontier war is tricked into becoming their next quarry, he must use his lethal skills to survive the night. As he exposes the club's link to the tyrannical regent Oboi, he finds himself entangled in a conspiracy that blurs the line between sanctioned slaughter and imperial justice, revealing how the morality of murder bends to the will of an era.