In the dark
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
In the dark
AUTHOR:
Mai, Jia, 1964-
麥家
Payne, Christopher, 1976-
ISBN:
9780141391458
PUBLICATION_INFO:
[London] : Penguin Books, 2015.
PHYSICAL_DESC:
396 p. ; 20 cm
GENERAL_NOTE:
First published in Mandarin in 2003.
ABSTRACT:
'Cracking another country's cipher is an undercover fight to the death.' Hidden deep in the mountains, the recruits at 'Unit 701', China's secret services, operate in a dark, shadowy world. There is the 'wind-listener', a blind surveillance officer who can hear sounds from miles away; the beautiful, unstable maths genius who meets a violent end; the old man who deciphers codes in his dreams; the spy who recounts a dangerous mission from beyond the grave. In this story of conspiracies, geniuses, revolutionaries and terrible moral choices, people sacrifice everything for a world of secrets until, ultimately, it destroys them.
GEOGRAPHIC_TERM:
LANGUAGE_546:
Translated from the Mandarin.
SUBJECT:
| Secret service -- China -- Fiction. |
| Intelligence officers -- Fiction. |
| China -- Fiction. |
| Spy stories. |
| Psychological fiction. |
BIBSUMMARY:
'Cracking another country's cipher is an undercover fight to the death.' Hidden deep in the mountains, the recruits at 'Unit 701', China's secret services, operate in a dark, shadowy world. There is the 'wind-listener', a blind surveillance officer who can hear sounds from miles away; the beautiful, unstable maths genius who meets a violent end; the old man who deciphers codes in his dreams; the spy who recounts a dangerous mission from beyond the grave. In this story of conspiracies, geniuses, revolutionaries and terrible moral choices, people sacrifice everything for a world of secrets until, ultimately, it destroys them.