The Cold War franchise rewinds to street-level 1994, three years before the handover, when Hong Kong is rich, jumpy, and still wired into the machinery of colonial power. A tycoon’s kidnapping pulls police brass, British intelligence, titans of industry, and the underworld into a four-way conflict over power and survival. Exploring the origins of the _Cold War’_s institutional combat, Longman Leung lets something older and rougher break through: triad succession drama, ransom panic, restaurant shootouts, and hard driving men trying to secure their place by force in a city on the cusp of historic change. Daniel Wu, Terrance Lau, and Louise Wong lead the 1994 story, with Wu Kang-ren, Tse Kwan-ho, Fish Liew, Aidan Gillen (Game Of Thrones), and Hugh Bonneville in the fray.