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The Product: ISBN: 9780312374310 ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780312374310 Author(s): James Church Format: Paperback Year: 2007 Edition: 1st Publisher: Minotaur Books Dimensions: 141 x 211 x 20 (w x l x h) Pages: 280 Series: Inspector O Novels

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Description: "On the surface, "A Corpse in the Koryo" is a crackling good mystery novel, filled with unusual characters involved in a complex plot that keeps you guessing to the end." —Glenn Kessler, "The Washington Post" "
One of Publishers Weekly Top 100 Books of 2006 One of Booklist's Best Genre Fiction of 2006 One of the Chicago Tribune's best mystery/thrillers of 2006

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 decade's-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. Author James Church weaves a story with beautifully spare prose and layered descriptions of a country and a peop