The Man with the Baltic Stare: a novel

✍ Scribed by James Church

• Book ID: 100055157
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press;Minotaur Books
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 148 KB
• Edition: 1st ed
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0312569416

✦ Synopsis

From James Church, the author of the critically acclaimed Inspector O series, comes _The Man with the Baltic Stare --_another riveting novel set in the mysterious world of North Korea

Autumn brings unwelcome news to Inspector O: he has been wrenched from retirement and ordered back to Pyongyang for a final assignment. The two Koreas, he learns, are now cooperating--very quietly--to maintain stability in the North. Stability requires that Inspector O lead an investigation into a crime of passion committed by the young man who has been selected as the best possible leader of a transition government. O is instructed to make sure that the case goes away. Remnants of the old regime, foreign powers, rival gangs--all want a piece of the action, and all make it 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.