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Bezig met laden... Ping-Pong Heart (2016)door Martin Limón
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Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Sueño and Bascom (book 11)
"South Korea, 1974. CID Sergeants George Sueño and Ernie Bascom are assigned an underwhelming case of petty theft: Major Frederick M. Schulz has accused Miss Jo Kyong-Ja, an Itaewon bar girl, of stealing a hundred thousand won from him--a sum equaling less than fifty US dollars. After two very divergent accounts of what happened, Miss Jo is attacked in the night, and Schulz is found hacked to death only days later. Did tensions simply escalate to the point of murder? Looking into other motives for Schulz's death, George and Ernie discover that he was investigating the 501st Military Intelligence Battalion: the Army's counterintelligence arm, dedicated solely to tracking North Korean spies. The division is rife with suspects, but it's dangerous to speak out against them in a period of Cold War finger-pointing. While they're used to breaking 8th Army rules, as George and Ernie go head-to-head with the powerful, intimidating Captain Lance Blood, they learn that messing with the 501st can have very personal consequences"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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It is the mid 70s in South Korea and the US army is there to assist with the treat coming from North Korea. And Sueño and Bascom are part of CID - the army's investigative arm (usually busy with the black market but occasionally dealing with bigger crimes).
Before long Miss Jo is beaten badly and then Major Schulz turns up dead - and everyone is ready to close the case on his death - if only they can find Miss Jo to charge her. Everyone but George Sueño who just does not like the whole story and how it unfurled. Mr. Kill shows up on the Korean side of the investigation, the usual Army bureaucracy kicks in and things start getting complicated when the things start pointing towards the counter intelligence part of the army.
By the end, Sueño gets to see his child again, make some decisions about his life (well, kinda), gets almost killed (again), Bascom loses their favorite Jeep (well, it is technically there, it just does not work anymore) and somehow get to the bottom of the whole story - finding the killer and a few spies while investigating the murder. And all that started because a man was too proud.
While the focus of the book, as with most entries in the series), is the crime (or crimes in this case), the social commentary about both Korea and the army adds a layer to it. Sueño does not really pull his punches while telling the stories - he comments on all he sees - racism and the state of the host country are often in his mind.
It is a good entry in the series. While it can work as a standalone, it works a lot better as part of the whole sequence - it closes some threads that got opened a few books ago. (