The expediter
By: David Hagberg.
Edition: 1st hardcover ed.
Publisher: Forge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780765311115
Subjects: McGarvey, Kirk (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Assassination -- Fiction; Murder for hire -- Fiction; Nuclear warfare -- Prevention -- Fiction; Pʻyŏngyang (Korea) -- Fiction; Korea (North) -- Relations -- China -- Fiction; China -- Relations -- Korea (North) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "It's the most extraordinary request McGarvey has ever received. He enters a dangerous international shadow world where almost nothing is as it seems. The puzzles lead him to a mysterious Russian ex-KGB multimillionaire whose specialty is expediting assassins for hire, to Pyongyang where he finds the wedge to open up a far-reaching plot so monstrous the entire world could go up into flames, and finally back to the one nation that potentially has the most to gain by such a war...and the most to lose."--BOOK JACKET.

"Late one balmy summer evening in Pyongyang, an important Chinese intelligence general on his way to a secret meeting with Kim Jon-Il is assassinated in plain sight of a surveillance camera. The two shooters are wearing the uniforms of North Korean police officers." "Kim Jong-Il denies any knowledge of the shooting, but the Chinese do not believe him. As they prepare to attack, Jong-Il promises to unleash his nuclear weapons on downtown Beijing, Seoul, and Tokyo, plunging the entire region into nuclear war." "Kirk McGarvey, just off a difficult assignment that took him to Mexico City, has returned to his visiting professorship at the University of South Florida. A colonel in North Korea's intelligence service shows up in person, asking McGarvey to prove that North Korea did not authorize the hit."
Notes: "A Tom Doherty Associates book."