Eon su Gim Knihy

In der Hafenstadt Guam herrscht das Verbrechen. Um zu überleben, ist den Menschen jedes Mittel recht. Auch Huisu ist mit allen Wassern gewaschen. Seit zwanzig Jahren erledigt er für Old Son, den Kopf von Guams Unterwelt, die Drecksarbeit. Von Bestechung über Schmuggelei bis hin zum Auftragsmord – Huisu schreckt vor nichts zurück. Doch seine Loyalität zahlt sich nicht aus, stets steht er im Schatten seines übermächtigen Bosses. Dann aber erhält Huisu ein verlockendes Angebot von einem Konkurrenten. Er sagt sich von Old Son los und zieht sein eigenes Glücksspielgeschäft auf. Als eine fremde Gang versucht, die Macht in Guam zu übernehmen, geraten die Dinge außer Kontrolle ...

A thriller like you've never read one before, from the hottest new voice in Korean fiction Plotters are just pawns like us. A request comes in and they draw up the plans. There's someone above them who tells them what to do. And above that person is another plotter telling them what to do. You think that if you go up there with a knife and stab the person at the very top, that'll fix everything. But no-one's there. It's just an empty chair. Reseng was raised by cantankerous Old Raccoon in the Library of Dogs. To anyone asking, it's just an ordinary library. To anyone in the know, it's a hub for Seoul's organised crime, and a place where contract killings are plotted and planned. So it's no surprise that Reseng has grown up to become one of the best hitmen in Seoul. He takes orders from the plotters, carries out his grim duties, and comforts himself afterwards with copious quantities of beer and his two cats, Desk and Lampshade. But after he takes pity on a target and lets her die how she chooses, he finds his every move is being watched. Is he finally about to fall victim to his own game? And why does that new female librarian at the library act so strangely? Is he looking for his enemies in all the wrong places? Could he be at the centre of a plot bigger than anything he's ever known?