Arriving in Mozambique in 1973 to battle a terrifying disease causing blindness, Dr. Harry Lynd and his band of medical missionaries, which includes a former nun now in love with him, are torn between medical ethics and the instinct to survive...
Lewis McKenna--medical missionary and spy for the exiled Chiang Kai-shek--and his family travel through postrevolutionary China to reach Taiwan, closely pursued by John Chen, state security agent and world-class chess player...