A Corpse in the Koryo
If you get the opportunity to read James Church’s A CORPSE IN THE KORYO, give it a shot. Enter the Stalinist time warp and meet Inspector O. The novel reminds me of Olen Steinhauer’s LIBERATION MOVEMENTS or Mo Hayder’s THE DEVIL OF NANKING for the combination of poetic descriptions and grim settings. Inspector O is a policeman in North Korea’s convoluted security apparatus. The jacket copy alludes to GORKY PARK by Martin Cruz Smith. Inspector O has some of the wry wit of Arkady Renko.
I think there are three NFL games scheduled for Thanksgiving Day. The early pilgrims played a lot of football and innovated Cover 2 and Cover Zero. They blitzed a lot. The ball was a deflated pig bladder so the games were defensive struggles.
My review of Thomas Lakeman’s THE SHADOW CATCHERS will appear in January Magazine in the next few days. It will appear in January’s Crime Fiction section. Check out the work of Ali Karim and Anthony Rainone as you browse around.