Archaeologist Renshu Liu's quiet life working on the site of the Terracotta Warriors is disturbed when he is asked to explore the mausoleum of the First Emperor of China, a tomb that no historian has been able to enter due to vast amounts of mercury and traps set over two thousand years ago.
Working in isolation, Renshu begins to hallucinate when he doesn't use the protection of his oxygen mask, and finds the tainted air allows him to experience the ancient tomb as a living place.
His wife is ala.
Thorpe-bowker Qin, paperback/harriet jones
