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A Snake Lies Waiting
by Jin Yong
Book 3 in the Legends of the Condor Heroes series.
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After Guo Jing survives the trials set by Huang Rong’s father on Peach Blossom Island, he, Zhou Botong and Count Seven Hong are trapped aboard a sabotaged vessel. Their struggle to return to the mainland is followed by new contests over the Nine Yin Manual, as Viper Ouyang seeks supremacy and Yang Kang conceals the full extent of his betrayal.
The political danger sharpens when the Jin prince Wanyan Honglie searches for writings attributed to the Song general Yue Fei, hoping they will provide a strategy for destroying the Southern Song. Martial inheritance and military memory become parallel sources of power: one promises mastery of the wulin, the other control of a divided empire. Guo Jing must decide whom to trust as private treachery converges with the continuing Jin–Song conflict.
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