A Corpse in the Koryo (Other Format)
by:
James Church (author)
ISBN:
9781448711536 (1448711533)
Publish date: February 12th 2010
Publisher: Paw Prints
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Mystery,
Detective,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
Spy Thriller,
Espionage,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Suspense
Series: Inspector O (#1)
A Corpse in the Koryo by James Church is the first in the series of crime novel featuring Inspector O, set in the totalitarian country of North Korea. The novels opens with Inspector O, handed with a camera waiting on a hill, waiting for a car to pass, which he is supposed to take a snap of. The ca...
This was one of those novels that plays with your head for a bit. Inspector O, a man of little importance in the Ministry of People's Security finds himself thrown into a case of smuggling, illicit dealing, a Western reporter, and a beautiful girl named Lena. But it's more than a tale of finding out...
I read these mystery/thrillers set in foreign lands as much for the insight into another culture as for the mystery, so this novel was a disappointment when I learned almost nothing about North Korea. It's an authoritarian system. Great. I didn't even get much of a sense of "asia-ness" about it. As ...
In the same vein of decent cops working for dictatorial regimes like my recently read Thirty-Three Teeth is James Church's A Corpse in the Koryo. Here, however, the atmosphere is far darker. Where Cotterill plays up the absurdities of the Pathet Lao's regime, Church's North Korean bureaucrats are vi...
This book has garnered rave reviews from just about everyone so I was really looking forward to reading it but really had to struggle to finish it. The setting in North Korea was interesting and the main character was pretty well fleshed out but I did not care for the structure of the story and tho...
12 years ago
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