# In the Dark

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- Book: [In the Dark](https://www.bookquiver.com/mai-jia/in-the-dark) ([In the Dark.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/mai-jia/in-the-dark.md))
- Authors: [Mai Jia](https://www.bookquiver.com/mai-jia)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4181-138-2
- Pages: 464
- Published: 2026-08-13
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.