The Man With the Baltic Stare: An Inspector O Novel

✍ Scribed by Church, James

• Book ID: 108927985
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 168 KB
• Series: Inspector O 4
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780312372927

✦ Synopsis

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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