Star of the North

D B John author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:3rd Jan '19

Should be back in stock very soon

Star of the North cover

This is the most explosive thriller of the year - you won't be able to put it down.



The CIA recruits her twin sister to uncover the truth.

Only by infiltrating the dark heart of the terrifying regime will she be able to save her sister…and herself.

‘Tense and compelling.’ James Swallow, Sunday Times bestselling author of NOMAD

'Extraordinary...smart, sophisticated, suspenseful - and important. If you try one new thing this year, make it Star of the North' LEE CHILD
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North Korea and the USA are on the brink of war.

A young American woman disappears without trace from a South Korean island.

The CIA recruits her twin sister to uncover the truth.

Now, she must go undercover in the world’s most deadly state.

Only by infiltrating the dark heart of the terrifying regime will she be able to save her sister…and herself.
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‘Tense and compelling.’ James Swallow, Sunday Times bestselling author of NOMAD

Extraordinary ... smart, sophisticated, suspenseful - and important. If you try one new thing this year, make it Star of the North. * Lee Child, bestselling author of the Jack Reacher thrillers *
Tense and compelling. * James Swallow, Sunday Times bestselling author of NOMAD *
A superior thriller…steeped in the intrigue, culture and family of a closed regime. * Andrew Gross, New York Times bestselling author *
[Y]ou should read this forensic exposure of the horrors of [Kim Jong-un’s] regime in this Tom Clancy-style evocation of what life there is actually like… Fast-moving and compelling, it provides the perfect fictional backdrop to the summit diplomacy we are now witnessing. * Daily Mail *
[John] parlays his knowledge into a grim but incisive narrative…. This is a masterly evocation of life under the Kim Jong-il regime. -- Barry Forshaw * Guardian *
The country has long tried to hide the terrible realities of life under the Kim dynasty, but John’s new novel, a timely political thriller…strips them bare. -- Sarah Oliver * Mail on Sunday *
A thrilling tale of abduction and escape in North Korea...highly entertaining...Star of the North builds to a gripping climax. * Washington Post *
John uses three memorable primary characters to tell a remarkable story about the most opaque country on Earth: North Korea … The lives of these people collide in a harrowing thriller that exposes an amazingly corrupt regime that embraces savage brutality and nearly every kind of lucrative criminal enterprise … a superior thriller. * Booklist *
Star of The North reads like a cross between Child-44 and I am Pilgrim and is every bit as good as both of them. Read this book and you will not only feel that you've been to North Korea you will also never, ever want to go there. Brutally realistic, fascinatingly detailed, it's a fantastic thriller whose fantasy is all the more powerful for being based on truth. * Simon Toyne, bestselling author of the Sanctus trilogy and Solomon Creed series *
The timeliest thriller of 2018. An intricately constructed puzzle box of spies and tradecraft that plunges the reader on a cyanide-laced sprint through North Korea. * Matthew Fitzsimmons, bestselling author of The Short Drop *

ISBN: 9781784708184

Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 26mm

Weight: 310g

448 pages