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  • Published: 17 November 2026
  • ISBN: 9780241811382
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 464
  • RRP: $29.99

In The Dark




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.

  • Published: 17 November 2026
  • ISBN: 9780241811382
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 464
  • RRP: $29.99

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