Blogging This Week: James Church

 Blogging this week is JAMES CHURCH, a former Western intelligence officer with decades of experience in Asia. He has wandered through Korea for years. No matter what hat he wore, Church says, he ran across Inspector O many times.

The critically acclaimed Inspector O returns....

It’s the late 1990s, and a younger Inspector O is working in Pyongyang as the North’s nuclear missile program—and international relations—are heating up. In Pakistan, the wife of a North Korean diplomat is found dead under suspicious circumstances. Inspector O is assigned to the investigation with strict instructions to stay away from anything to do with the missile program. That proves impossible, though, when O realizes the woman’s death provides him an entry point into a larger conspiracy. O follows the trail to Pakistan, Berlin, and eventually Geneva as he uncovers the truth about the rocket operation..