In the Dark

Mai Jia author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:27th Aug '15

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

In the Dark cover

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, and, the old man who deciphers codes in his dreams.

'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.

In the Dark has all the hallmarks of a thriller... its immense readability derives from the pervading air of mystery, the Orwellian depiction of Chinese state security... A twisting, riddling and compellingly original exploration of thwarted geniuses and restricted lives -- Malcolm Forbes * National *
A compound of documentary, mystery and folk-tale - an unfamiliar voice from the centre of a world of secrets * The Times *

ISBN: 9780141391458

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 23mm

Weight: 292g

400 pages