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008			070629s2006 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a 2006045471
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082	0	0	_aMYS CHU
100	1		_aChurch, James
245	1	2	_aA corpse in the Koryo _c/ James Church
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York _b: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur _c, 2006.
300			_a280 p. _c; 22 cm.
520	3		_a"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.
651		0	_aKorea (North) _x-Officials and employees _z-Fiction
655		7	_aSuspense fiction
655	1	4	_aMystery fiction
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