It begins at a Paris auction house, with a favor granted by an old high school friend to geologist Philip Mercer: an opportunity to buy a rare diary written during the French attempt at digging the Panama Canal. But Mercer isn't the only one who wants it. Three Chinese assassins have been dispatched to get it, forcing Mercer into a subterranean game of cat and mouse.
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