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The Wandering Ghost

by Martin Limon

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ISBN13: 9781569474815
ISBN10: 1569474818
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Publisher Comments:

Praise for Martin Limn:

"It's great to have these two mavericks back. . . . Mr. Limn writes with . . . wonderful, bleak humor, edged in pain, about GI life."-The New York Times Book Review

"Limn's crisp, clear storytelling opens a door to another world and leaves one hoping the next installment won't be so long in arriving."-The Baltimore Sun

"Limn has the military lingo and ambience down to a T. Plot, pacing, and plausibility are just about perfect."-The Philadelphia Inquirer(editor's choice)

"As usual, Limn paints a picture of Korea in the mid-1970s that is so detailed and richly atmospheric that the reader's senses are flooded with the sounds, smells, and tastes of the place. Fans of the Sueo-Bascom series, who have been waiting eagerly for a new novel, can relax. It was well worth the wait."-Booklist(starred review)

The only female MP assigned to a base in the DMZ is missing. Has she been abducted, killed, or, possibly, gone AWOL? Eighth Army cops George Sueo and Ernie Bascom, sent to find her, discover a murder that has been concealed, rampant black marketeering and corruption, crooked officers, rioting Korean civilians, and the wandering ghost of a schoolgirl run down by a speeding army truck. It is up to them to right egregious wrongs while being pursued by criminals who want to kill them.

Martin Limnis the author of four earlier books in the Sueo-Bascom series. His debut, Jade Lady Burning, was a New York TimesNotable Book.

Review:

"The turbulent Korean peninsula provides the backdrop to this fine military mystery, the fifth (after 2005's The Door to Bitterness) to feature U.S. Army criminal investigation agents George Sueo and Ernie Bascom. A crack combat unit stationed near the strife-torn demilitarized zone proves strangely uncooperative when a military policewoman disappears. The missing soldier had made herself unpopular with her chain of command when she attempted to testify against two GIs who accidentally killed a Korean schoolgirl while speeding. As Sueo and Bascom dig past the obfuscation, they uncover an unsavory mix of black marketeering, sexual harassment, corruption, rape and murder, risking disgrace in their quest to find their fellow cop before it's too late. Limn, a veteran who spent 10 years stationed in the Republic of Korea, captures precisely the experience and atmosphere of the tension that exists between the American military and South Korean society, two vastly different worlds bound together only by realpolitik." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

Review:

"The odds are slim that two police procedurals set in Korea will show up at the same time, but here is another one, and it's also a winner. 'The Wandering Ghost' is a military police procedural, with two U.S. 8th Army investigators in South Korea in the mid-1970s searching for Corp. Jill Matthewson, who has vanished. Is it foul play, or has the female officer, who is fed up with sexual and other harassment... Washington Post Book Review (read the entire Washington Post review)

About the Author

Martin Limn is the author of numerous stories about his army police duo as well as four previous novels, Jade Lady Burning, Slicky Boys, Buddha's Money, and The Door to Bitterness, all available from Soho Crime. His debut novel, Jade Lady Burning, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He lives near Seattle.

Product Details

ISBN:
9781569474815
Author:
Limon, Martin
Publisher:
Soho Crime
Author:
Lim"n, Martin
Subject:
Mystery & Detective - General
Subject:
Americans
Subject:
Missing persons
Copyright:
Publication Date:
November 2007
Binding:
Hardcover
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
314
Dimensions:
0.00 x 0.00 in
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