The Hidden Thunder

I put it on the bookshelf a long time ago, but I couldn't resist reading it until a few days ago. Today I finally read up to chapter 440. Here are some of my thoughts on the book. The story has a good premise; although it's a niche genre, it's a high-quality spy novel. Worth reading. However, the flaw is the chaotic logic, repeatedly making the protagonist a suspect.

Good grief, you're always there when something goes wrong. Who else would I suspect if not you?

I hope the author won't be added to the suspect list every time they cause trouble. One or two times might be a coincidence, but it's wrong to keep it up every time, even without direct evidence and seemingly cleared of wrongdoing. Intelligence agencies should either kill or remove such people, or marginalize them; there's no way they'd climb the ranks.

Compared to the seriousness of *Thunderclap*, this book represents a significant shift in style. It also differs greatly from the overly detailed explanations of *Crossing the Sea of ​​Spies*. I discussed this book with Hero before the New Year, and he remarked then that it was unexpected, and now it truly is.

Having read many spy novels, this one easily ranks in my top three. Its main strengths are its meticulous logic and the characters' high intelligence. It portrays true spies and intelligence agents. The enemies are also highly professional and ruthless; only through such portrayal can one truly appreciate the hardships endured by our predecessors in that era of internal and external troubles, where they faced life-or-death situations every day!

I was stunned for days after watching the ending. Well, if you simply accept that Mochizuki Wakako is a traitor and then kill her off in one chapter, I'd probably forget about her after reading it. But you've detailed this character's personality and experiences in over two million words, and then suddenly, during one of the happiest moments of her life, the protagonist plunges her into despair.

I think this book is really well written, especially the supporting characters, who are all very well-developed and not just acting as one-man shows.

I love this book, I love the protagonist. I've loved it even more than other spy novels because the protagonist perseveres and fights out of faith. He doesn't even know if his efforts will bear fruit, which makes him all the more admirable. Other spy novels featuring time travel and reincarnation characters, even knowing the inevitable outcome, choose silence for their own sake.

I feel like if I reread a chapter every three to five days, there's still some unresolved issue, and I'm already showing a lot of patience by not deleting it. Does anyone else feel the same way?

I first encountered the author through *Jing Lei*. Honestly, *Die Ying* got me into the spy genre, but *Jing Lei* made me truly love spy novels. Most spy novels nowadays follow the same formula as *Die Ying*, but *Die Ying* has really exhausted all the tropes, making other similar novels inevitably tedious (for this reason, I haven't read much of *Zheng Du*).