Inspector O, a state security man who's both a rebel and a survivor in North Korea's brutally totalitarian regime, has finally stumbled onto a case that he's willing to risk both his career and his life to solve. At the outset, the case seems simple enough, but soon has him so far off his department's turf that he finds himself with a choice of devils with which to bargain. From Philip Kerr's Berlin Noir trilogy to the Inspector Arkady Renko novels, another unfamiliar and foreign world is opened up for the reader. A world so alien that the rules are an enigma to the reader and, sometimes, even to Inspector O.