Author Description

About the Author With over a million subscribers to his microblog and five million books sold, Xu Lei is one of China’s most popular and highest grossing novelists. Born in 1982, he was inspired by his parents’ travel stories to write fanciful tales about tomb raiders, which he then posted online. The series became Secrets of a Grave Robber, which now boasts eight volumes in print, three of which have been published in English. Search for the Buried Bomber, the first book in the Dark Prospects series, was hailed as China’s most spectacular suspense novel of 2010. Xu Lei currently lives in Hangzhou, China. James Chen’s audiobook credits include Pump Six and Other Stories, The Foreigner, and Prayer of the Dragon. He has a recurring role on the TV show L&O SVU and has been in such films as We Need to Talk about Kevin and Mr. Popper's Penguins, among others. He received his BA from the University of Pennsylvania and his MFA from Yale Drama. He is also a member of Descendant Films. Product Description The X-Files meets Indiana Jones in Search for the Buried Bomber, the first in Xu Lei’s Dark Prospects series of thrillers steeped in archeological myths and government secrets. 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 World War II bomber left by their Japanese enemies. How the aircraft ended up beneath thousands of feet of rock baffles the team, but they’ll soon encounter far more treacherous and equally inexplicable 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. Pride sent them into the caves, but terror will drive them out. Thro