Sit on a quiet hillside at dawn among the wildflowers; take a picture of a car coming up a deserted highway from the south. <BR><br>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 &mdash; and Inspector O discovers too late 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. <BR><br>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. James Church http://lakenet.llcoop.org/search/X?A+Corpse+in+the+Koryo+Church 2009-01-05T16:03:02-05:00 A rebellious survivor of North Korea's brutal totalitarian regime, Inspector O, a state security officer, risks his life and career to solve a case that begins innocuously enough when he is asked to photograph a certain vehicle. 3868 0312374313