Church James - A Corpse in the Koryo

Against the backdrop of a totalitarian North Korea , one man unwillingly uncovers the truth behind series of murders, and

wagers his life in the process.

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 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.

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