The Plotters
Books | Fiction / Thrillers / Crime
3.9
Un-su Kim
ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • A fantastical crime novel set in an alternate Seoul where assassination guilds compete for market dominance."The Plotters’s first convenient comparison may be to the ever-expanding John Wick movies" --Los Angeles Review of BooksBehind every assassination, there is an anonymous mastermind--a plotter--working in the shadows. Plotters quietly dictate the moves of the city's most dangerous criminals, but their existence is little more than legend. Just who are the plotters? And more important, what do they want?Reseng is an assassin. Raised by a cantankerous killer named Old Raccoon in the crime headquarters "The Library," Reseng never questioned anything: where to go, who to kill, or why his home was filled with books that no one ever read. But one day, Reseng steps out of line on a job, toppling a set of carefully calibrated plans. And when he uncovers an extraordinary scheme set into motion by an eccentric trio of young women--a convenience store clerk, her wheelchair-bound sister, and a cross-eyed librarian--Reseng will have to decide if he will remain a pawn or finally take control of the plot.Crackling with action and filled with unforgettable characters, The Plotters is a deeply entertaining thriller that soars with the soul, wit, and lyricism of real literary craft.
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Author
Un-su Kim
Pages
304
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published Date
2019-01-29
ISBN
0385544391 9780385544399
Ratings
Google: 4.5
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"Loved the first half! Great story, interesting take on life as an assassin, took a left turn in the writing style towards the end that didn’t make sense. Didn’t finish but if someone did was there a reason why it felt like such a shift? "
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Hunter Lee
"I was surprised how much I enjoyed this one. It's a gritty noir story about an eternal war of assassins and the people who get caught in the middle. Somehow it managed to merge brutal violence, off-beat whimsical humour and genuine emotion into a package that was more than the sum of its parts."
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"How do I review this book? It's more than just a thriller, it's sentimental in it's aloof and detached nature..it's poetic narrative of moral questioning was effortless and matter of fact. It's literary genius is apparent within the first few pages, I think it has the best intro to any book I've ever read actually."