- 23 Apr 2020 19:54
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I want to suggest a book.
A CIA guy spent much of his career working NK, and he wanted to talk about what it was like there. He did it by writing an excellent detective novel called A Corpse in the Koryo.
I've read it a couple times, it's good enough to be worth a second time around.
"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."
https://www.amazon.com/Corpse-Koryo-Inspector-Novel-Novels-ebook/dp/B003JMF9DY/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2UF4F8396M61A&dchild=1&keywords=a+corpse+in+the+koryo&qid=1587667766&sprefix=the+corpse+in+the+koryo%2Caps%2C154&sr=8-1
A CIA guy spent much of his career working NK, and he wanted to talk about what it was like there. He did it by writing an excellent detective novel called A Corpse in the Koryo.
I've read it a couple times, it's good enough to be worth a second time around.
"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."
https://www.amazon.com/Corpse-Koryo-Inspector-Novel-Novels-ebook/dp/B003JMF9DY/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2UF4F8396M61A&dchild=1&keywords=a+corpse+in+the+koryo&qid=1587667766&sprefix=the+corpse+in+the+koryo%2Caps%2C154&sr=8-1
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