Edmond Bartes’s career had been brilliant: service in one of Paris’s prestigious banks, with marriage to the banker’s charming daughter in the future. And then everything collapsed overnight. Now the sidewalks of the French capital had to be replaced by the wide expanse of the ocean, and refined Parisian society—by a secret organization of Chinese pirates. Edmond Bartes becomes their leader—Kwang, the “King of Death.” No one except the closest people knew Kwang’s face; no one was allowed into his palace, located on one of the countless Zond islands…