Author: Jia, Mai
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published on 27 August 2026 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Penguin Modern Classics – Crime & Espionage' series.
Paperback | 464 pages
196 x 129 x 22 | 324g
The thrilling international bestseller by 'China's answer to John le Carré' (Financial Times)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.