Publisher Description
Pride sent them into the caves, but terror will drive them out. During China’s tumultuous Cultural Revolution, the People’s Liberation Army dispatches an elite group of prospectors famous for their work uncovering rare minerals to the mountains of rural Inner Mongolia. Their assignment: to bring honor to their country by descending into a maze of dank caves to find and retrieve the remnants of a buried Japanese World War II bomber. How the aircraft ended up beneath thousands of feet of rock baffles the team, but they’ll soon encounter far more treacherous forces lurking in the shadows. Each step taken — and each life lost — brings them closer to a mind-bending truth that should never see the light of day.
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About Xu Lei
Xu Lei was born
in 1982 and lives in Hangzhou, the most beautiful city in China. To his Chinese
fans, he is better known by his pen name: Nanpai Sanshu. Originally engaged in
international commerce, he once ran a foreign trade enterprise, and his days
were filled with negotiating with American clients. In his spare time he loved
to read horror and suspense novels. Bored after having consumed nearly all of
the good books in those two genres, he decided to write his own suspense
serial: The Grave Robbers’ Chronicles. To his surprise, he became famous
overnight, becoming China’s most popular suspense novelist. Since becoming an
author, his real life has become like something out of a novel. He was even
called by an actual grave robber who wanted to correct some of the inaccuracies
in his work. To date, he has published Chinese editions of The Grave Robbers’
Chronicles, Books 1-8, Dark Prospects, Books 1 and 2, and War of the Furious
River, Books 1 and 2, and this last is now being adapted into a movie. Among
these, Book 1 of The Grave Robbers’ Chronicles and Book 1 of Dark Prospects
have both been published in English.
About James Chen
James Chen is an actor and AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator. He has a recurring role on the Law & Order SVU and has appeared in such films as We Need to Talk about Kevin and Mr. Popper’s Penguins. He received his BA from the University of Pennsylvania and his MFA from Yale Drama. He is also a member of Descendant Films.