The Shade of the Willow

The game is Go. The stakes are human lives.

For Hana Nakano, being the Kwantung Army's finest typist is an honor. But her perfectly ordered world is shattered when she discovers the monstrous purpose of the secret unit she serves: a camp where unspeakable experiments are performed in the name of progress.

Now, she must play the most dangerous game of her life. In a silent war of wits against a brilliant and cruel colonel, Hana uses the ancient strategies of Go to leak information and sabotage the camp from within. Every coded note is a move on the board; every decoded message is a step closer to being discovered. In this game, there is no honor in death, only in survival.