Serpent's Smile

What is right when all the choices are wrong?What if you had to choose between ending a tyrannical government at the cost of thousands of men, women, children, even the love of your life, or saving them all but allowing the tyranny to continue unchecked?Blake Spencer, an American Engineer, is teaching two seminars at a university in mainland China. But he's a pawn in a coordinated attack by revolutionaries to topple the Chinese Communist Party. Will he help bring down a cruel regime at such a terrible cost? How much will he sacrifice for love?