{"product_id":"the-consultant-the-darkly-funny-satirical-korean-thriller-9781526654151","title":"The Consultant: The darkly funny, satirical","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'It's a clever book ... [Im Seong-sun] offers readers his razor-sharp observations on consumerism, capitalism and what it means to feel anonymous' \u003c\/b\u003eM.W. Craven  \u003cb\u003e_______________\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e Sometimes work can be murder...\u003c\/b\u003e  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 begins to understand the real scope of their work, he realises just how easy it would be for the Company to arrange one more perfect murder...  But how far will he go to escape The Company? And how far will they go to stop him?  \u003cb\u003eThe electrifying first novel from award-winning Korean thriller-writer Im Seong-Sun – now in English for the first time – combines the tension of the best crime fiction with searing social criticism to present a searing take-down of global corporate life.  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Consultant\u003c\/i\u003e is not only a \u003cb\u003ehugely entertaining\u003c\/b\u003e book, it’s a \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eclever\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e book. As the morally ambiguous consultant goes about his business of arranging natural deaths to streamline corporate restructuring, he offers readers his razor-sharp observations on consumerism, capitalism and what it means to feel anonymous. It’s also \u003cb\u003edamn funny\u003c\/b\u003e -- M. W. Craven author of the Sunday Times bestselling Washington Poe series\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis tale of an accidental accomplice to serial murder spellbindingly combines the eerily affectless, morally ambiguous tone of a Patricia Highsmith novel with John Dickson Carr’s fecundity in devising “impossible” crimes\u003c\/b\u003e * Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eAn epic satire of society and power, \u003ci\u003eThe Consultant\u003c\/i\u003e charms and shocks, luring you in to its sizzling plot with no mercy, until you're petrified of how it can possibly end. \u003cb\u003eA blistering indictment of our modern world, this thriller will make you question everything. Brilliant\u003c\/b\u003e -- Eve Smith\u003cbr\u003eAn intriguing premise, cleverly executed, makes for \u003cb\u003ea brilliant read\u003c\/b\u003e. For The Consultant, a killer who never meets his victims, it all starts to go wrong when he’s told to kill someone he knows. \u003cb\u003eDarkly funny, with a fascinating protagonist, it’s excellent\u003c\/b\u003e! -- Guy Morpuss, author of Five Minds and Black Lake Manor\u003cbr\u003eWow … Such a fresh take. Perfect murders in the imperfect world of business and power. Quietly and stylishly told. There’s an honesty in the simplicity and brutality that is enlightening and thought-provoking. I’ll be thinking about it for a while -- Will Carver\u003cbr\u003eA spicy and pacey Korean crime novel in translation… the reader is brought along on a thrilling journey that probes the cracks in capitalism by exploring what people would really do for money * Huffington Post, 23 Brilliant New Books for 2023 To Get Your Reading List Started *\u003cbr\u003eConsultant unfurls from the perspective of a first-person narrator who writes scenarios of perfect crimes. It examines ... the violence of modern anonymity and capitalism. * Readers News *\u003cbr\u003eThe details and specifics of murder consulting are intriguing, and the plot propelled by its cerebral narrative and reasoning is refreshing ... it's a page turner, reminiscent of the American show, CSI. -- Segye Ilbo Literary Prize Judges\u003cbr\u003eThese facts about Sung-soon Lim might astound you ... Every book of his boasts a drastically different sensibility, prose, and subject matter. His world building is unparalleled, his prose precise, and you can see the echo of extensive research that must have gone into the storytelling. * Channel Yes *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e[\u003ci\u003eThe Consultant\u003c\/i\u003e]\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eis toweringly the most interesting of the autumn bunch \u003ci\u003e... \u003c\/i\u003ebeautifully crafted, witty, slick novel has a profound meta-physical basis\u003c\/b\u003e * Tablet *","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409844445527,"sku":"9781526654151","price":14.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-consultant-the-darkly-funny-satirical-korean-thriller-9781526654151","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}