<div><div><div>"On the surface, <i>A Corpse in the Koryo</i> is a crackling good mystery novel, filled with unusual characters involved in a complex plot that keeps you guessing to the end."<br>---Glenn Kessler, <i>The Washington Post</i> <br><i>  <br>One of Publishers Weekly Top 100 Books of 2006<br>One of Booklist's Best Genre Fiction of 2006<br>One of the Chicago Tribune's best mystery/thrillers of 2006<br> <br>Sit on a quiet hillside at dawn among the wildflowers; take a picture of a car coming up a deserted highway from the south. <br></i>         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. <br>         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. </div><div> </div><div><div>“. . . an outstanding crime novel. . . . a not-to-be-missed reading experience. ” <br>---<i>Library Journal </i>(starred)<br> <br>“Inspector O is completely believable and sympathetic . . . The writing is superb, too . . . richly layered and visually evocative.”<br>---<i>Booklist</i> (starred)<br> <br>“. . . an impressive debut that calls to mind such mystery thrillers as Martin Cruz Smith's <i>Gorky</i><i> </i><i>Park</i>. . . .” <br>---<i>Publishers Weekly </i>(starred) </div></div></div></div>