āmeets Murakamiā D. B. John, author ofKill BillStar of the North
āA work of literary geniusāKaren Dionne, internationally bestselling author of Home
āI loved it!āM. W. Craven, author of The Puppet Show
āYouāll be laughing out loud every five minutesāYou-jeong Jeong, author of The Good Son
āA mash-up of Tarantino and Camus set in contemporary SeoulāLouisa Luna, author of Two Girls Down
āAn incredible cast of charactersāLe monde
āSmart but lightning fastāBrian Evenson, author of Last Days
Plotters are just pawns like us. A request comes in and they draw up the plans. Thereās someone above them who tells them what to do. And above that person is another plotter telling them what to do. You think that if you go up there with a knife and stab the person at the very top, thatāll fix everything. But no-oneās there. Itās just an empty chair.
Reseng was raised by cantankerous Old Raccoon in the Library of Dogs. To anyone asking, itās just an ordinary library. To anyone in the know, itās a hub for Seoulās organised crime, and a place where contract killings are plotted and planned. So itās no surprise that Reseng has grown up to become one of the best hitmen in Seoul. He takes orders from the plotters, carries out his grim duties, and comforts himself afterwards with copious quantities of beer and his two cats, Desk and Lampshade.
But after he takes pity on a target and lets her die how she chooses, he finds his every move is being watched. Is he finally about to fall victim to his own game? And why does that new female librarian at the library act so strangely? Is he looking for his enemies in all the wrong places? Could he be at the centre of a plot bigger than anything heās ever known?
A thriller like youāve never read one before, from the hottest new voice in Korean fiction