{"product_id":"2940169776584","title":"Bamboo and Blood: The Inspector O Novels, Book 3","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe critically acclaimed \u003ci\u003eA Corpse in the Koryo\u003c\/i\u003e brought readers into the enigmatic workings of North Korean intelligence with the introduction of a new kind of detective ¿\u003cbr\u003e the mysterious Inspector O. In the follow-up, Hidden Moon, O threaded his way through the minefield of North Korean ministries into a larger conspiracy he was never supposed to touch.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow the inspector returns.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the winter of 1997, trying to stay alive during a famine that has devastated much of North Korea, Inspector O is ordered to play host to an Israeli agent who appears in Pyongyang. When the wife of a North Korean diplomat in Pakistan dies under suspicious circumstances, O is told to investigate¿but with a curious proviso: Don¿t look too closely at the details, and stay away from the question of missiles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e O knows he can¿t avoid uncovering what he is supposed to ignore on a trail that leads him from the dark, chilly rooms of Pyongyang to an abandoned secret facility deep in the countryside, guarded by a lonely general, and from the streets of New York to a bench beneath a horse chestnut tree on the shores of Lake Geneva, where the Inspector discovers he is up to his ears in missiles ¿ and worse. Stalked by the past and wary of the future, O is convinced there is no one he can trust and no one he can¿t suspect. Swiss intelligence wants him out of the country; someone else wants him dead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnce again, James Church¿s spare, lyrical prose guides listeners through an unfamiliar landscape of whispered words and shadows, a world wrapped in a level of mystery and complexity that few outsiders have experienced. With Inspector O, noir has a new home in North Korea, and James Church holds the keys.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Blackstone Audio production.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47099729543408,"sku":"2940169776584","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169776584_p0.jpg?v=1769899891","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169776584","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}