An Asian government develops a reliable means of changing a person's physical appearance and fingerprints, by rendering tissues "malleable in molecular arrangement", and uses it to replace a U.S. presidential candidate with his double.
Somewhere south of the Mongolian border and north of the Tropic of Cancer, in that part of the world we call the Orient, a slumbering giant has shaken itself to wakefulness.
Passed over in most histories as a nation forgotten by time, its close-packed millions in the short span of twenty years have been stirred to a fury by one man: Li-Chin Sung.
William Lyons Selby, candidate for the presidency of the United States, predicted by every poll, survey, and primary to be a certain winner in the forthcoming election.An undisclosed Asian government plans to take over America by infiltrating and substituting officials at the White House.
Though "Selby" fools the nation at large during his first few months in office, his daughter, Carol, soon begins to suspect that the man in the President is not her father.