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The Man with the Baltic Stare de James Church

The Man with the Baltic Stare: Inspector O Novels

Autor James Church
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 iul 2011

The mysterious Inspector O is once again drawn into a web of concessions and cover-ups in the newest mystery from critically acclaimed author James Church.

Autumn brings unwelcome news to Inspector O: wrenched from retirement, he has been ordered to Pyongyang for an assignment. The two Koreas are now cooperating--very quietly--to maintain stability in the North. Stability requires compromise; stability requires peace; stability requires that O investigate a crime of passion committed by the young man who has been selected as the best leader of a transition government.

O is instructed to make sure the case goes away. Then he learns that several groups remnants of the old regime, foreign powers, rival gangs all want a piece of the action, and all make clear that if O values his life, he will not get in their way. O isn't sure where his loyalties lie, and he doesn't have much time to figure out whether tis better to be noble or be dead.

Once again, James Church's spare, lyrical writing illuminates an unfamiliar landscape of whispers and shadows, a place few outsiders have ever experienced. "The Man with the Baltic Stare "is a chilling, atmospheric noir a fascinating response to the works of Martin Cruz Smith and John Le Carre."

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780312569419
ISBN-10: 0312569416
Pagini: 279
Dimensiuni: 139 x 210 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Minotaur Books
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Praise for "The Man with the Baltic Stare" "The central character is a Pyongyang police officer, the likeable Inspector O, who knows that in North Korea mysteries are never solved, just absorbed into larger mysteries.... Mr. Church keeps his own counsel, so it is not known how he comes by his information, but the scenic details and atmospherics suggest more than a passing acquaintance with the realities of life in North Korea." --"The Economist""Each Inspector O novel is a strange new trip through the looking glass, and this one is every bit as praiseworthy as its predecessors." --"Booklist," starred review "Church once again shows an extraordinary ability to bring that enigmatic country to life, a feat made even more impressive by the wholly plausible near-future setting. Satisfied readers will hail Church as the equal of le Carre." -"Publishers Weekly," starred review "In literary retirement, [Church] employs the accumulated intelligence to get inside 'enemy' skin--using the character of Inspector O to show the spectrum of emotions, ideals and historical sensibilities through which a jaded yet ultimately loyal North Korean apparatchik might make sense of his country's plight." -"Wall Street Journal" ""The Man With The Baltic Stare" is a spy thriller supreme...Church steers a suspenseful route of elegant twists and hairpin turns." -- Dayton Daily News "While publishers comb the fjords for the next Stieg Larsson, readers devoted to bleak international noir would do better to turn their attention from Northern Europe to Asia. North Korea, to be exact. The hero of "The Man With the Baltic Stare," ""the fourth and perhaps last in a series of excellent crime novels following Inspector O, might not know how to use the cell phone he sometimes has to carry. But like Larsson's heroine, a petite Asperger-ish libertarian in the land of large blondes and big government, the self-contained Inspector O bucks the stereotypes that we associate with his co

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