There is an interesting site on the Chinese Internet - “Wandering Souls of Ancient Graves”. It seems to be dedicated to Chinese history, but a strange thing: many visitors to the site commit suicide. What is this - a coincidence? An epidemic of a new computer biological virus? The heroes of the novel “Virus” investigate cases of suicide, and pictures of the recent history of China open before them. The main secret lies in the tomb of Empress Alute, whose body remained incorruptible, but... lost her head... Modern China and ancient mysticism, bloody crimes and inevitable punishments, fear of ghosts and the horror of fatal revenge...

Tsai Jun wrote several mystical thrillers - “Reed Lake”, “Love for a Cat”, “Virus” - and won the title of “Chinese Stephen King”. Cai Jun's new novel, “The Curse,” will be published in 2006.