by Un-suKim (Author)
A thriller like you've never read one before, from the hottest new voice in Korean fiction
Plotters are just pawns like us. A request comes in and they draw up the plans. There's someone above them who tells them what to do. And above that person is another plotter telling them what to do. You think that if you go up there with a knife and stab the person at the very top, that'll fix everything. But no-one's there. It's just an empty chair.
Reseng was raised by cantankerous Old Raccoon in the Library of Dogs. To anyone asking, it's just an ordinary library. To anyone in the know, it's a hub for Seoul's organised crime, and a place where contract killings are plotted and planned. So it's no surprise that Reseng has grown up to become one of the best hitmen in Seoul. He takes orders from the plotters, carries out his grim duties, and comforts himself afterwards with copious quantities of beer and his two cats, Desk and Lampshade.
But after he takes pity on a target and lets her die how she chooses, he finds his every move is being watched. Is he finally about to fall victim to his own game? And why does that new female librarian at the library act so strangely? Is he looking for his enemies in all the wrong places? Could he be at the centre of a plot bigger than anything he's ever known?
Format: hardcover
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Published:
ISBN 10: 0008315760
ISBN 13: 9780008315764
`An incredible cast of characters ... a first-rate thriller' Le monde
`With sharp humour and sparkling prose, Un-su Kim stylishly spins the tale of the extraordinary life of an ordinary assassin' J.M. Lee, author of The Investigation
`A work of literary genius; a quirky, compelling, intelligent, darkly funny, highly original and thought-provoking thriller like nothing I've read. Gorgeous prose elevates the basest of characters and answers the question: How can ours be a life well-lived if we only do as we're told? I loved this book!' Karen Dionne, internationally bestselling author of Home
`Make sure you leave the evening free, because you won't want to put this book down when you start' You-jeong Jeong, author of The Good Son
`The Plotters is what would happen if you took the best South Korean crime cinema and distilled it into words. A smart but lightning fast thriller that keeps the pressure on to the very last page' Brian Evenson, author of Last Days and A Collapse of Horses
`Imagine a mash-up of Tarantino and Camus set in contemporary Seoul, and you have The Plotters. Filled with unexpected humour and exquisite fight scenes' Louisa Luna, author of Two Girls Down
`A rich, funny, cynical Korean roman noir ... a delicious surprise' La Croix
`More than a crime novel, more than violence and mystery, The Plotters promises both temptation and beauty' Eka Kurniawan, author of Beauty is a Wound
`The Plotters tells the story of Reseng, a jaded assassin who startles himself by realizing - somewhat belatedly - that he has a moral code, a sense of honour, a soul. All of these will prove to be perilous liabilities in his world. Un-Su Kim is a tremendous writer, and he's crafted a smart, stylish, and surprisingly moving thriller' Scott Smith, author of A Simple Plan and The Ruins
Un-su Kim was born in 1972 in Busan and is the author of several highly praised novels. He has won the Munhakdongne Novel Prize, Korea's most prestigious literary prize, and was nominated for the 2016 Grand Prix de la Litteraire Policiere. He lives in Jinhae-gu, South Korea.
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