Autor/-in: Jia Mai

Mai Jia. was born in 1964 and spent many years in the Chinese intelligence services. His first novel in English, Decoded. , was published by Penguin Classics in 2002, and has been translated into over twenty languages. Jia's novels have sold over 10 million copies and he is a winner of the Mao Dun Literature Prize, the highest literary honour in China.