The Korean Woman, John Altman
The Korean Woman, John Altman
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The Korean Woman

Author: John Altman

Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini

Unabridged: 8 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/09/2019

Synopsis

North Korea’s deadliest weapon is sleeper agent Song Sun Young. Married with children and living the good life in New York City, she has waited seven years to activate the mission she was trained to do: infiltrate America’s financial infrastructure. She prays the call from her handlers will never come, because she loves her husband and kids and affluent New York lifestyle.But the call does come. During volatile negotiations between the White House and Pyongyang, Song is hurled back into a reality she had hoped to leave behind forever.Unbeknownst to her, the CIA has already broken her cover. Working with “retired” Israeli operative Dalia Artzi, they track the Korean agent as she relentlessly executes her mission. Langley is pulling strings behind the scenes, confident of its advantage in this high-stakes game—until an unforeseen wild card from within its very ranks hijacks the operation for an unthinkable purpose.Dalia realizes that Song has been the unwitting catalyst for the disaster now unfolding, and that she alone can stop it from engulfing the world.

About John Altman

John Altman is the author of seven previous thrillers, including False Flag, which introduced Israeli operative Dalia Artzi. His thrillers have sold over a quarter-million copies in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, the Netherlands, Italy, and Poland. He lives with his wife and children in Princeton, New Jersey.

About Edoardo Ballerini

Edoardo Ballerini is a two-time winner of the Audio Publisher Association’s Best Male Narrator Award, a two-time winner of Society of Voice Arts Awards, and was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine in 2019.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jypsy

The Korean Woman is a thrilling story about an activated sleeper agent from North Korea. There's a problem,though. She has a family. Also, unknown to her, the cover is blown,and someone is after her. What would you do? It's a terrible situation, so it makes a good story. It's engaging and full of ac......more

Goodreads review by John

Mi-Hi Abrahams is living the American dream. She’s the mother of two children; a boy age five and a girl age two and a half, married to a Wall Street lawyer, and living a privileged, wealthy lifestyle on Manhattan’s upper east side where she’s a doting mommy and actively involved in the PTA and comm......more

Goodreads review by Marsha

An exceptional novel with an intriguing premise. I don't want to call it a thriller. It's certainly a page turner but this novel is much more than a thriller. Altman gets us inside the head of Mi-Hi Abrahams, a seemingly typical upscale housewife, but she's really a North Korean sleeper spy who has......more

Goodreads review by Nancy McMahan

Couldn’t hang in there with this book. I was very interested in the story of Song and what happens to her, but I was ultimately lost in all the technical Homeland jargon. I skipped big chunks, trying to find the continuing story of Song.......more

Quotes

“A hard-as-nails, breathtakingly paced thriller that absolutely could not be more topical.” William Christie, author of A Single Spy

“Altman’s depiction of Song’s long-dormant tradecraft shines in this high-adrenaline thriller…A high-stakes game of cat and mouse.” Booklist

“No one is writing breathless spy action as well as John Altman. It’s crisp, it’s punchy, it’s elegant. And the women aren’t decorative doormats or degraded corpses; they’re at the center of the whirring, twisting, pulsing action. And they kill it!” Leslie Silbert, internationally bestselling author of The Intelligencer

Awards

  • Mystery Tribune Pick
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