Inspector O Novel
A Corpse in the Koryo
James Church
List price £8.99
Product Details
- Format:
- Paperback
- ISBN:
- 9780312374310
- Published:
- 24 Sep 2007
- Publisher:
- Minotaur Books
- Dimensions:
- 288 pages - 140 x 210 x 20mm
- Series:
- Inspector O Novel
Categories:
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 anyone who knows too much about a series of decades-old kidnappings and murders - and Inspector O 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.
James Church (pseudonym) is a former Western intelligence officer with decades of experience in Asia.