The new thrilling international bestseller by China's literary master; 'China's answer to John Le Carre' ("Financial Times). " Set around Communist China's top intelligence-gathering organizations (currently known as Unit 701) between the 1940s and the present day, In the Dark deals with operatives working in the departments of intercepted communications, cryptography/code-breaking, and covert operations. Told through five linked stories and spanning thirty years, it is a stunning epic of radio surveillance, code-breaking and secret missions in which psychics, revolutionaries and math geniuses fight for survival. They are from three divisions: the 'Wind-Listeners' are people in charge of radio surveillance;the 'Wind-Watchers' are code breakers; the 'Wind-Catchers', field agents. Each protagonist is extremely accomplished in their profession, but deeply flawed in other aspects, and each dies in the end in seemingly absurd and ironic accidents. ".