The nations of the world denounce him as a war criminal, driving him to suicide. Tyler designs a swarm of small, nuclear-equipped Kamikaze space-fighters, but his secret plan to work with the ETO to double-cross Earth's forces, and subsequently to triple-cross the Trisolarans, is published by his Wallbreaker. Later it is revealed that Luo was chosen because the ETO wanted to assassinate him. To general surprise, the fourth Wallfacer is announced to be Luo Ji, an obscure Chinese professor of sociology who is lazy and un-ambitious. Three of them are chosen on the basis of merit: Frederick Tyler, former secretary of defense of the USA Manuel Rey Diaz, former president of Venezuela, also a nuclear engineer and Bill Hines, former president of the EU, also a neuroscientist. Since the sophons cannot read minds, the PDC decides that, in addition to regular military expansion, there will be four people appointed as Wallfacers, to be granted access to the resources of the UN to develop grand strategies known only to themselves. However, the subatomic computers sent from Trisolaris, known as sophons, have already reached the Earth, and are able to conduct surveillance of national secrets and private conversations, and to disrupt the operation of particle accelerators, the latter serving to obstruct any new discoveries in physics. The UN forms the Planetary Defense Council (PDC) to coordinate defensive efforts against the impending assault of the Trisolarans, whose fleet is 421 years away. The English version, translated by Joel Martinsen, was published in 2015.

It is the second book in Three Body Problem (trilogy).

The Dark Forest ( Chinese: 黑暗森林 Hēi'àn sēnlín) is a 2008 science fiction novel by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin. Print (hardcover and paperback), e-Book, Audiobook Publication Chronology Previous

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