'Cracking another country's cipher is an undercover fight to the
death...'
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.