A disgraced naval archaeologist decodes a 300-year-old Russian cipher mapping a sunken imperial treasure — but the map only becomes readable when the tide is low enough to see the wreck, and every low tide, someone else is already diving.
Qiao Shan is a game booster stuck with Support, the class everyone calls useless. But Support has a dark secret: every buff creates Soul Debt that he can unleash as raw damage at a terrible cost to his teammates.
Shot down over the Pacific in 1944, a US bomber crew survives only to be rescued by the very enemy they were trained to destroy — and uncover a secret war that claims both navies.
A burned CIA case officer is hired to bodyguard a reclusive European arms dealer — but the contract's fine print lists the dealer's own assassination as the deliverable, and the clock on the contract starts the moment he signs.