A corpse in the Koryo / James Church
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur , 2006.Edition: 1st edDescription: 280 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 0312352085
- 9780312352080
- MYS CHU
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Mystery | Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles | General | MYS CHU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 023358 |
"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." "Like Philip Kerr's Berlin Noir trilogy and the Inspector Arkady Renko novels, A Corpse in the Koryo introduces another unfamiliar world, a perplexing 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 spare prose and layered descriptions of a country and a people he knows by heart after decades as an intelligence officer."--BOOK JACKET.
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