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A Snake Lies Waiting is the next in Jin Yongs high stakes, tension-filled epic Legends of the Condor Heroes, where kung fu is magic, kingdoms vie for power and the battle to become the ultimate kung fu master unfolds.Guo Jing has confronted Apothecary Huang, his sweetheart Lotus Huangs father, on Peach Blossom Island, and bested the villainous Gallant Ouyang in the three trials to win the hand of his beloved.. But now, along with his two friends and shifus, Zhou Botong of the Quanzhen Sect, and Count Seven Hong, Chief of the Beggar Clan, he has walked into another trap. Tricked into boarding a unseaworthy barge by Apothecary Huang, the three friends will surely drown unless Lotus -- who has overheard her fathers plans -- can find a way to save them.. Yet even if they are to survive the voyage, great dangers lie in wait on the mainland. Viper Ouyang, the gallants uncle and one of the Five Greats of the martial world, is determined to have his revenge on Guo Jing for getting the better of his nephew, and bent on becoming the most powerful master of the wulin. Meanwhile, Yang Kang, who Guo Jing has come to trust, has yet to reveal the full extent of his treachery.
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Louis Cha, GBM, OBE (born 6 February 1924) , better known by his pen name Jin Yong (, sometimes read and/or written as "Chin Yung") , is a modern Chinese-language novelist. Having co-founded the Hong Kong daily Ming Pao in 1959, he was the paper's first editor-in-chief. Cha's fiction, which is of the wuxia ("martial arts and chivalry") genre, has a widespread following in Chinese-speaking areas, including mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and the United States. His 15 works written between 1955 and 1972 earned him a reputation as one of the finest wuxia writers ever. He is currently the best-selling Chinese author alive; over 100 million copies of his works have been sold worldwide (not including unknown number of bootleg copies) .Cha's works have been translated into English, French, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai, Burmese, Malay and Indonesian. He has many fans abroad as well, owing to the numerous adaptations of his works into films, television series, comics and video games. ?????????OBE????Louis Cha Leung-yung?1924?3?10??2018?10?30??????????????????????1948???????1950????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Source: (Chinese Profile) (Thai Profile)
