6/5/2023 0 Comments His fair assassin books![]() ![]() These hit men take their orders from “plotters,” a shadowy group with an array of clients. “ The Plotters,” Kim’s energetic 2019 English-language debut, starts out as a character study of Reseng, a 32-year-old Seoul hit man rescued as an infant from a garbage can by nuns, then adopted by an assassin known only as Old Raccoon and raised in a library/criminal headquarters called the Doghouse. Look for Jeong’s next thriller, “ Seven Years of Darkness,” out from Penguin in June. Ripley,” but Jeong is saying something about the complicated relationships among mothers and sons and siblings that will also resonate with American readers. “The Good Son” reminds me of Patricia Highsmith’s “The Talented Mr. Yu-Jin’s constant headaches may remind readers of recent unreliable-narrator mysteries, but Jeong unspools the truth in a way that will make you fear for his community and remaining family. In the novel, Han Yu-jin is awakened by the smell of blood in his Seoul home, only to discover his mother has been murdered in the kitchen, her throat slit and her body carefully posed. It’s inspired by the shocking double murder of two wealthy Korean parents by their son upon his return from a disastrous gambling trip to Las Vegas. ![]() Her novels have been bestsellers in South Korea “ The Good Son,” her first to be translated into English, has sold over a million copies. Born in a rural county in South Korea’s South Jeolla province, Jeong was a nurse before turning to writing full time. ![]()
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