FOREIGN INTRIGUE BOOK CLUB: A Corpse in the Koryo

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At Books Inc. Laurel Village. Do you like to travel? Experience a country through the eyes of a local? Try the food of another country? Join the Foreign Intrigue Book Club at Books Inc. Laurel Village! Meets on the third Tuesday of the month.This month we're reading A Corpse in the Koryo by James Church. 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 people he knows by heart after decades as an intelligence officer.". . . an outstanding crime novel. . . . a not-to-be-missed reading experience. "---Library Journal (starred)"Inspector O is completely believable and sympathetic. . . The writing is superb, too. . . richly layered and visually evocative."---Booklist (starred)". . . an impressive debut that calls to mind such mystery thrillers as Martin Cruz Smith's Gorky Park. . . ."---Publishers Weekly (starred)

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