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  • The Inspector O Novels, Book 1
  • By: James Church
  • Narrated by: Feodor Chin
  • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
  • 3.6 out of 5 stars (9 ratings)
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Summary

Sit on a quiet hillside at dawn among the wildflowers; take a picture of a car coming up a deserted highway from the south.

Simple orders for Inspector O, until he realizes they have led him far, far off his department’s turf and into a maelstrom of betrayal and death. North Korea’s leaders are desperate to hunt down and eliminate anyone who knows too much about a series of decades-old kidnappings and murders—and Inspector O discovers too late that he has been sent into the chaos. This is a world where nothing works as it should, where the crimes of the past haunt the present, and where even the shadows are real.

Author James Church weaves a story with beautifully spare prose and layered descriptions of a country and a people he knows by heart after decades as an intelligence officer.
©2006 James Church (P)2011 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Police Procedurals Suspense
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“James Church does a better job of describing the isolated, impoverished, corrupt, and out-of-touch life in the North than anything I have seen.” (Newt Gingrich)

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Fascinating but ultimately disappointing

Like many others I was impressed by the writing and might give the next book a chance, but this book never really gets going and the ending doesn't explain the goings on.

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