Glory in the Dust

Name: Glory in the Dust
Author: Zeng Xueying

尘埃里的荣耀

by Zeng Xueying (曾学英)

Status: Completed
Length: 325k Words
Genre: Historical
Subgenre: War & Espionage
Updated: 2mo ago
English: Request a translation

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Synopsis

Anti-Japanese War spy intrigue + espionage, history + agents, powerful figures + power struggles, face-slapping

Late autumn, 1948. The operations room of the Xuzhou Suppression Headquarters. Just as Section Chief Guo Zhun, a major general, reaches for the gun in his desk drawer, Shen Xingzhi, a special agent from the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics, walks in. He says he’s there for a cup of tea, but his eyes are fixed on Guo Zhun’s shoes. Hidden in the heel is a roll of microfilm that could change the course of the Huaihai Campaign.

The most dangerous thing isn’t the enemy’s suspicions. It’s losing contact with his own side. His handler, Old Chen, was arrested and executed; the only person who could prove Guo Zhun’s identity is dead. A fake contact shows up with the wrong code phrase, while the real one sends a merciless order: “The organization cannot verify you. Find the traitor and execute him.” Guo Zhun is a lone piece on the board, with no one to vouch for him.

A listening device is planted in his office. Direction-finding vehicles track his radio signals night after night, and his wife and children in Nanjing are “taken away.” Fang Ming, his former Whampoa Military Academy classmate, smiles as he offers him a cigarette and probes for information, then secretly slips him a map: “Shen Xingzhi has started writing your arrest report. You have five days at most.”

As danger closes in from every side, the Huaihai Campaign plans take shape line by line beneath his pen: Huang Baitao’s retreat route, Huang Wei’s direction of reinforcements, Du Yuming’s final plan. Every document he sends out can change the fate of hundreds of thousands. But who is his contact? And who is the traitor hiding in the shadows?

When Shen Xingzhi finally gets hard evidence and arrives with men to arrest him, Guo Zhun has already changed into a People’s Liberation Army uniform and taken his place at the front of the uprising. This is not one man’s infiltration, but the long-awaited return of a group of unsung heroes.

Note: The story is inspired by real events, but its characters are fictional. Every crisis is even more harrowing than history itself.

Stats

138Chapters

4.1kReads · 30 days

23.9kReads · all time

317Shelf adds, last 14 days

8.0Score

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