Bamboo and Blood (Inspector O Novel)

by JamesChurch (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2009

  $3.49

  It's the late 1990s, and a younger Inspector is working in Pyongyang as the North's nuclear missile program - and international relations are heating up. In Pakistan, the wife of a North Korean diplomat is found dead under suspicious circumstances. Inspector is assigned to the investigation with strict instructions to stay away from anything to do with the missile program. That proves impossible, though, when realizes the woman's death provides him an entry point into a larger conspiracy,Once again, James Church opens a window onto a society where nothing is quite as it seems. The story serves as the reader's flashlight, illuminating a place that outsiders imagine is always dark and too far away to know.

• New

  Paperback
  2010

  $16.97

  When the wife of a North Korean diplomat in Pakistan dies under suspicious circumstances, O is told to investigate, with a curious provison: Don't look too closely at the details, and stay away from the question of missiles. O finds himself on a trail that leads from the dark rooms of Pyongyang to the streets of New York and the shores of Lake Geneva. He is up to his ears in missiles - and worse. Stalked by the past and wary of the future, O is convinced there is no one he can trust, and no one he can't suspect. Once again, Church guides readers through an unfamiliar landscape of whispered words and shadows that few outsiders have experienced. With Inspector O, noir has a new home in North Korea, and James Church holds the keys.