It's a clever book ... [Im Seong-sun] offers readers his razor-sharp observations on consumer
capitalism and what it means to feel anonymous' M. W. Craven ------------------- Sometimes
work can be murder... The Consultant is very good at his job. He creates simple elegant
effective solutions for... restructuring. Nothing obvious or messy. Certainly nothing anyone
would ever suspect as murder. The 'natural deaths' he plans have always gone well: a medicine
replaced here a mechanism jammed there. His performance reviews are excellent. And it's not as
though he knows these people. Until his next 'customer' turns out to be someone he not only
knows but cares about and for the first time he begins to question the role he plays in the
vast anonymous Company. And as he slowly starts to understand the real scope of their work he
realises just how easy it would be for the Company to arrange one more perfect murder... But
how far will he go to escape The Company? And how far will they go to stop him? The
electrifying novel from award-winning Korean thriller-writer Im Seong-sun - now in English for
the first time - combines the tension of the best crime fiction with searing social criticism
to present a searing take-down of global corporate life.
