The ruins of the Bamiyan Buddhas lay still under the twilight, shadows stretching long over the dusty ground. To Agent Wei Liang, the scene felt like a wound that could never heal. For Liang and a small group of operatives within the Ministry of State Security—operatives who were also devout Buddhists—this wasn't just an act of vandalism. It was an assault on their identity, on history itself.Liang had always been an enigma within the agency. A brilliant strategist with an uncanny ...

Jason Bourne is back in this exhilarating adventure as a riddle leaves Bourne with less than four days to prevent a cataclysmic international war.On the eve of Russian general Boris Karpov's wedding, Jason Bourne receives an enigmatic message from his old friend and fellow spymaster. In Moscow, what should be a joyous occasion turns bloody and lethal. Now Bourne is the only one who can decipher Karpov's cryptogram. He discovers that Karpov has betrayed his sovereig...

JASON BOURNE: THE LEANER, MEANER JAMES BOND FOR THE 21****ST CENTURYDiscover the original Jason Bourne.Jason Bourne is in Moscow to attend the wedding of his old friend and fellow spymaster General Boris Karpov. But amid the celebrations, the General has an important message to deliver to Bourne – 'a lifeline,' he says, 'for the end of the world'.Before Bourne can decipher this enigmatic warning, Karpov's wedding ends in chaos and bl...

A supernatural mystery set in Singapore featuring a "detective whose beat reaches to the fringes of Heaven and Hell," by the author of Snake Agent ( Booklist).No mortal has ever heard of the Book, and few in Heaven even believe it is real. Instead, they regard the stories of a bound volume older than time itself as something of a creation myth. But Mhara, the Emperor of Heaven, knows the Book is very real, very powerful, and very much missing. It ...

I am but a mountain child, only because out of curiosity inadvertently involved in a series of grave robbing incidents. Ancient tombs sleeping for thousands of years, bloody blood tombs, altered Warring States tomb complexes and Mongolian imperial tombs 。。。。。。。 Tomb bizarre, step by step frightening, tomb in tomb fan in fan resurrection of the dead bones hidden secrets, in the long-planned conspiracy, in can not shirk the family make, our three young people's fate will be how.

'Serial killers turn up all the time in crime fiction, but few are as patient or as devious as the murderer in Zhou Haohui's Death Notice. This extraordinary novel is the first in a trilogy, and it is already China's bestselling crime series to date' Sunday TimesTHE LAW IS WEAKFor nearly two decades an unsolved double homicide has haunted Sergeant Zheng Haoming of the Chengdu Police Department.I OFFER REAL JUSTICENow it looks a...

Order has collapsed, and morality has crumbled. Caught between the living dead and mutated beasts, people struggle to survive on a battlefield drenched in blood and flesh! There are tears and melodrama; there is gunpowder smoke, fog, and a grand conspiracy. A clash of wits and courage, a battle between love and hate. What earth-shattering conspiracy lies behind the zombie virus?

Chu Chen accidentally clicked into a live stream and found himself caught in a life-or-death slaughter. But as he grew stronger, he realized the world he saw was merely the tip of the iceberg. It turned out to be the story of a demonic god boss who grew up straddling the line between justice and evil-a being whose true nature was impossible to discern.

"Jack Livings's stories of China are marvels of the imagination." —Paul Harding, author of TinkersSet in the shifting landscape of contemporary China, Jack Livings's The Dog explodes the country's cultural and social fault lines, revealing a nation accustomed to rations, bitter struggle, and the stranglehold of communism as it confronts a generation rife with the promise of unforeseen prosperity.In this riveting, richly im...

Take a step. Take a bow. Look around, how far you've come.For an immortal, the mortal world has little to offer them. Except, perhaps, perspective.Descent from the Mountain is a short story set in the A Thousand Li universe. This story can be read as a stand-alone. There are no spoilers for later works and the short story does not include individuals from the main series.

Expectation conceals the truth.Noblewoman and cultivator Li Yao is called to a small village to investigate a mysterious illness that has drained residents of their chi. Accompanying her are her suitors Xiang An and Shen Wei, both more trouble than they're worth in Li Yao's eyes.Perhaps not all is as it seems. In the village and her suitors.This is a short story set in the A Thousand Li universe. Does not need to be read to follow the main series.

This book presents the historical background of taijiquan (tai chi) in China and one of its major representatives, Xiong Yanghe (1889-1981). By providing the time and place of Xiong's life, his involvement in the military, and his emigration to Taiwan where he taught for decades, a rare view of the fullness of taiji is presented. He had the innate ability and the opportunities to study with many great teachers. The result was the Grandmaster Xiong was a teacher who embodie...