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Book SynopsisSHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA DAGGER FOR CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION 2024
''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
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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 reali
