Valley of Terror, Zhou Haohui
Valley of Terror, Zhou Haohui
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Valley of Terror

Author: Zhou Haohui, Bonnie Huie

Narrator: Braden Wright

Unabridged: 12 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 08/29/2017


Synopsis

A mysterious “fear disease” is scaring to death the citizens of Longzhou, China. Literally. Victims go insane or die frozen in terror, while survivors rant maniacally about demons infiltrating the city. But what’s really behind the sudden epidemic? To find the answer, Chief Inspector Luo Fei teams up with a controversial historian and a brilliant psychologist to track down the true source of the illness and halt the wave of horror that threatens the metropolis.As the trio ventures to the primitive jungles and mountains of Yunnan, they’re haunted by tales of a seventeenth-century general whose demonic soul, said to have been sealed away in a vial of his blood, has been unleashed on the modern world. Now, trekking deep into the legendary Valley of Terror, they find themselves being stalked by someone—or something—daring them to uncover the truth. And as superstition, science, and history collide, their discovery could be as heart-stopping as fear itself.

About Zhou Haohui

A leading contemporary master of suspense in China, Zhou Haohui is the author of more than ten novels exploring the intersection of human nature, criminal motive, and the art of detection. His books include Killing Notice, The Evil Hypnotist, The Horrific Picture, and The Ghost Mountain. His works have been translated into French, English, Korean, and Japanese, and many have been adapted for film and television. Born in Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, Zhou received his master's degree in engineering from Tsinghua University.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Miglė

What an entertaining and unpretentious book! I feel that lately evaluations of crime fiction / thriller books are based largely on how well the writer constructs the psychology of characters, their motivations, childhood traumas etc. This canon is so pervasive that I almost forgot how wonderfully ent......more

Goodreads review by Judah

One way to describe this book is a 200-page modern detective thriller involving an artifact theft which is interrupted, 150 pages in, by an episode of Expedition Unknown filmed in the Chinese wilderness. Alternately, one can think of this book as plotted like a 1960’s Star Trek episode. In a Federati......more

3.5 stars Another book that proves publishing needs a genre tag for slightly supernatural crime procedurals that differentiates them from horror as a whole. If you picked this up thinking it's a horror book, I'm sorry for your inevitable disappointment. There's some spooky stuff - an allegedly demoni......more