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EBOOK ISBN 9781925626735 RIGHTS HELD World TEXT PUBLISHING AUGUST 2018 5 THE PLOTTERS UN-SU KIM TRANSLATED FROM THE KOREAN BY SORA KIM-RUSSELL Should he pull the trigger now? If he pulled it, he could be back in the city before midnight. He’d take a hot bath, down a few beers until he was good and drunk, or put an old Beatles record on the turntable and think about the fun he’d soon have with the money on its way into his bank account. BEHIND the assassinations that change history, are DAHUIM PAIK Un-su Kim was born in 1972 in Busan. the plotters, the masterminds working in the shadows. He has won the Munhakdongne Novel Raised by Old Raccoon in The Library of Dogs, Prize, Korea’s most prestigious literary Reseng has always been surrounded by plots to kill— prize, and was nominated for the 2016 and by books that no one ever reads. In Seoul’s corrupt Grand Prix de Littérature Policière. 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Zitwer Agency in its fallen world. association with Korean Literary Management 6 TEXT PUBLISHING AUGUST 2018 ‘More than a crime novel, more ‘An incredible cast of characters… than violence and mystery, The Plotters a first-rate thriller.’ promises both temptation and beauty.’ ‘Awe is my reaction to The Plotters. Le Monde Eka Kurniawan, The novel thrills me like a wolf feels author of Beauty Is a Wound when it has smelled blood.’ ‘Now this is a story with power and Kwon Yeo-seon, style. The one-two punches of humour author of Niche of Green ‘Like a veteran killer…quickly, are a nice bonus…You’ll be laughing coolly, and without hesitation, Un-su Kim out loud every five minutes…You’ll find commands sentences and stories that ‘A book of revelations for murder yourself contemplating the meaning of stab the reader between the ribs.’ both violent yet graceful, dark yet life, death and desire for a long, long Park Min-gyu, poetic. With sharp humour and time. Make sure you leave your evening author of Pavane for sparkling prose, Un-su Kim stylishly free, because you won’t be able to put a Dead Princess spins the tale of the extraordinary this book down once you start.’ life of an ordinary assassin.’ You-jeong Jeong, J.