"Mai plays adroitly with literary genre and crafts a story of Borgesian subtlety and complexity."-- The New Yorker Rong Jinzhen, an autistic math genius with a past shrouded in myth, is forced to abandon his academic pursuits when he is recruited into Unit 701: a top-secret Chinese intelligence agency whose sole purpose is counterespionage and code-breaking.
As China\'s greatest cryptographer, Rong discovers that the mastermind behind the maddeningly. "Mai plays adroitly with literary genre and crafts a story of Borgesian subtlety and complexity."-- The New Yorker Rong Jinzhen, an autistic math genius with a past shrouded in myth, is forced to abandon his academic pursuits when he is recruited into Unit 701: a top-secret Chinese intelligence agency whose sole purpose is counterespionage and code-breaking
