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A Snake Lies Waiting is the next in Jin Yong''s 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 Huang''s 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 Lotuswho has overheard her father''s planscan 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 gallant''s uncle and one of the Five Greats of the martial world, is determined to ha

A Snake Lies Waiting

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    A Paperback / softback by Jin Yong, Anna Holmwood, Gigi Chang

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      Publisher St. Martin's Griffin
      Published 8 September 2020
      ISBN-13 9781250250124
      978-1250250124
      ISBN-10 1250250129

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A Snake Lies Waiting is the next in Jin Yong''s 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 Huang''s 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 Lotuswho has overheard her father''s planscan 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 gallant''s uncle and one of the Five Greats of the martial world, is determined to ha

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