Jade Lady Burning

Authors: Limon, Martin
Publisher: Soho Press
BISAC/Subject: FIC032000, FIC056000, FIC022080
ISBN: 9781569478011, Related ISBNs: 1569470200, 1569478015, 1616950900, 9781569470206, 9781569478011
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 224,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: New York Times Notable Book of the Year 

Meet Sergeants George Sueño 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. Koreans look for any opportunity to hate the soldiers who drink at their bars and carouse with their women. 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. Sergeants George Sueño 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. As repressed resentments erupt around them, the pair sets out on an increasingly dangerous quest to find evidence that will exonerate their countryman.
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