THE CONSULTANT

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA DAGGER FOR CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION 2024 It s a clever book Im Seong sun offers readers his razor sharp observations on consumer capitalism and what it means to feel anonymous M W Craven Sometimes work can be murder 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 starts 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 The electrifying 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 sharp social criticism in this