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From the author of the critically acclaimed Inspector O series comes 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 pas...

From the author of the critically acclaimed Inspector O series comes 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 pas...

When the wife of a North Korean diplomat dies, Inspector O is told to investigate, with a curious proviso: Don't look too closely at the details, and stay away from the topic of missiles. But O is soon up to his ears in missilesand worse.

When the wife of a North Korean diplomat dies, Inspector O is told to investigate, with a curious proviso: Don't look too closely at the details, and stay away from the topic of missiles. But O is soon up to his ears in missilesand worse.

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In A Corpse in the Koryo, James Church introduced readers to one of the most unique detectives to appear in print in years--the elusive Inspector O. The stunning mystery was named one of the best mystery/thrillers of 2006 by the Chicago Tribune for its beautifully spare prose and layered descriptions of a terrain Church knows by heart. And now the Inspector is back. In Hidden Moon, Inspector O returns from a mission abroad to find his new poli...

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North Korea's leaders are desperate to hunt down and eliminate anyone who knows too much about a series of decades-old kidnappings and murdersand Inspector O discovers too late that he has been sent into the chaos.

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Church weaves a story with beautifully spare prose and layered descriptions of a country and a people he knows well after decades as an intelligence officer. This chilling portrayal leaves readers wondering if what at first seems unknowable may simply be too familiar for comfort.

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Excerpt from Beiträge zur Sprache der Lateinischen Grabinschriften, Vol. 1: Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doktorwürde der Hohen Philosophischen Fakultät der Kgl, Bayer, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität zu MünchenRheinisches Museum für Philologie. Alte Folge 1827 - 1841. Bonn. Neue Folge 1842 ff. Frankfurt am Main.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenboo...

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Excerpt from The Doctor's Part, What Happens to the Wounded in War These impressions of a Military Observer are the results of over two years spent by Colonel Church on the Western front as an Observer with our Allies and later on the Staff of the Command ing General of the American Expeditionary Force. His service of twenty years in our army, includ ing duty on the Mexican border and with the First United States Volunteer Cavalry (rough Rid...

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James Church's Inspector O novels have been hailed as "crackling good" (The Washington Post) and "tremendously clever" (Tampa Tribune), while Church himself has been embraced by critics as "the equal of le Carré" (Publishers Weekly, starred). Now Church-a former Western intelligence officer who pulls back the curtain on the hidden world of North Korea in a way that no one else can-comes roaring back with a new novel introducing Inspector O's n...

Excerpt from In Loving Remembrance of the Founders of the Parish of Saint James Church in Woodstock, Vermont and of Those by Whose Devotion Their Work Was Continued This Memorial Is Set Forth: 1827-1907Governor Benning Wentworth, Mary Wentworth Appleton Clapham, who died here, so that mingled with the dust of the town is that of the family of him who gave it its name and charter.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousand...