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.
- ISBN10 0312372922
- ISBN13 9780312372927
- Publish Date 27 August 2010 (first published 17 August 2010)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 22 June 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Minotaur Books,US
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English