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082 | 0 | 0 | _aLARP MYS CHU |
100 | 1 | _aChurch, James | |
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_aA corpse in the Koryo _c/ James Church |
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_aDetroit _b: Thorndike Press _c, 2007, c2006. |
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_a453 p. _c; 22 cm. |
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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. | |
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_aKorea (North) _x-Officials and employees _z-Fiction |
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655 | 7 | _aSuspense fiction | |
655 | 1 | 4 | _aMystery fiction |
830 | _aLarge print books | ||
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