Fiction
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Alec Brodie kicked around South Korea for years, making his name as a photojournalist but blowing his money the moment he got his hands on it. A decade later, in London, just as the creditors are closing in a fat commercial assignment arrives from the K-N Group in Korea. In Seoul he bumps into his old lover, Jung-hwa, now married to one of K-N's senior executives. Brodie finds Seoul's low life as congenial as ever, not least the beautiful hooker, Miss Hong. About the time he discovers he is part of an enormous corporate scam he receives a ghoulish package. Miss Hong has been murdered, Brodie is the prime suspect, and in Korea the maximum penalty for murder is death. With the police on his tail his only hope is to go after K-N's senior management. There's no easy way out and still his relationship with Jung-hwa to be resolved. Brodie is on the run, alone in a strange land but perhaps not completely alone.