A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Meet Sergeants George Sue o and Ernie Bascom in their first investigation, set in 1970s South Korea Almost twenty years after the end of the Korean War, the US Military is still present throughout South Korea, and tensions run high.
He lives near Seattle..
He is the author of eleven novels in the Sue o and Bascom series, including Jade Lady Burning, The Iron Sickle, The Ville Rat, and Ping-Pong Heart, as well as the short story collection Nightmare Range.
About the Author: Martin Lim n retired from military service after twenty years in the US Army, including ten years in Korea.
As repressed resentments erupt around them, the pair sets out on an increasingly dangerous quest to find evidence that will exonerate their countryman.
Sergeants George Sue o and Ernie Bascom, Military Police for the US 8th Army, are assigned to the case, but they have nothing to go on other than a tenuous connection to an infamous prostitute.
When Pak Ok-suk, a young Korean woman, is found brutally murdered in a torched apartment in the Itaewon red-light district of Seoul, it looks like it might be the work of her American soldier boyfriend.
Koreans look for any opportunity to hate the soldiers who drink at their bars and carouse with their women.
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Meet Sergeants George Sue o and Ernie Bascom in their first investigation, set in 1970s South Korea Almost twenty years after the end of the Korean War, the US Military is still present throughout South Korea, and tensions run high
