This is a 2010 novel from the Korean novelist Un-Su Kim about a group of assassins working in the shadows. This is a very wheels within wheels kind of book, and it’s not really a spy or assassins book so much as a portrayal of modern forms of violence, power, and money. We follow Reseng, one assassin within the, let’s call it, economy of assassination. What becomes clear is that somewhere in the last 60 or 70s years, assassination has become a neoliberally dictated and […]