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Inspector O novels

Author:
Church, James
Church, James, 1947
 
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Star rating for A corpse in the Koryo
Series Volume:
1.
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Against the backdrop of a totalitarian North Korea, one man unwillingly uncovers the truth behind series of murders, and wagers his life in the process.
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.

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Star rating for Hidden moon
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2.
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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

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Star rating for Bamboo and blood
Series Volume:
3.
Description:
In a late 1990s North Korea, a younger Inspector O is working Pyongyang as the country's nuclear missile program begins to escalate and as the wife of a North Korean diplomat turns up dead in Pakistan under suspicious circumstances, but as Inspector O investigates, he discovers that the woman's death could lead to a larger conspiracy.
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Star rating for The man with the Baltic stare
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4.
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Ordered out of retirement to Pyongyang to cover up a crime of passion committed by the young leader of a transitional government vital to a tenuous peace agreement between the two Koreas, Inspector O finds his life threatened when the case tests his loyalties.
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Star rating for A drop of Chinese blood
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5.
Description:
When clues link a beautiful woman's disappearance to a sensitive mission to deliver an agent across the North Korean border, Bing, a director of state security in a volatile region of China, receives reluctant help from his uncle, Inspector O, to navigate an increasingly complex investigation.
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Star rating for The gentleman from Japan
Series Volume:
6.
Description:
"James Church's Inspector O novels have been hailed as "crackling good" (The Washington Post). 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 an unputdownable new novel. A Spanish factory near Barcelona is secretly producing--under the guise of a dumpling maker--a key machine for the production of nuclear weapons. Western intelligence...