A Corpse in the Koryo
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- Synopsis
- Sit on a quiet hillside at dawn among the wildflowers; take a picture of a car coming up a deserted highway from the South. Simple orders for Inspector O, until he realizes they have led him far, far off his department's turf and into a maelstrom of betrayal and death. North Korea's leaders are desperate to hunt down and eliminate any¬one who knows too much about a series of decades-old kidnappings and murders-and Inspector .0 discovers too late he has been sent into the chaos. - This is a world where nothing works as it should, where the crimes of the past- haunt the present, and where even the shadows are real. A corpse in Pyongyang's main hotel-the Koryo--pulls Inspector O into a confrontation of bad choices between the devils he knows and those he doesn't want to meet. A blue button on the floor of a hotel closet, an ice blue Finnish lake, and desperate efforts by the North Korean leadership set Inspector O on a journey to the edge of a reality he almost can't survive. Like Philip Kerr's Berlin Noir trilogy, and the Inspector Arkady Renko novels, A Corpse in the Koryo introduces another unfamiliar world, a per¬plexing universe seemingly so alien that the rules are an enigma to the reader and even, sometimes, to Inspector O. Author James Church weaves a story with beautifully spare prose and layered descriptions of a country and a people he knows by heart after decades as an intelligence officer. This is a chilling portrayal that, in the end, leaves us wondering if what at first seemed unknowable may simply be too familiar for comfort.
- Copyright:
- 2006
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 281 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780312352080
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 01/31/07
- Copyrighted By:
- James Church
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers
- Submitted By:
- Jamie Yates
- Proofread By:
- David H. Carter
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.