Pre-Owned: Special Envoy: A Spy Novel (Hardcover, 9781620973127, 162097312X)

Special Envoy: A Spy Novel, ISBN-10 162097312X, ISBN-13 9781620973127, Echenoz, Jean, 160 pages, Publisher: The New Press, Binding: Hardcover

Jean Echenozs sly and playful novels have won critical and popular acclaim in France, where he has won the Prix Goncourt, as well as in the United States, where he has been profiled by the New Yorker and called themost distinctive voice of his generation by the Washington Post. With his wonderfully droll and intriguing new work, Special Envoy, Echenoz turns his hand to the espionage novel. When published in France, it stormed the bestseller lists.

Special Envoy begins with an old general in Frances intelligence agency asking his trusted lieutenant Paul Objat for ideas about a person he wants for a particular job: someone to aid the destabilization of Kim Jong-uns regime in North Korea. Objat has someone in mind: Constance, an attractive, restless, bored woman in a failing marriage to a washed-up pop musician. Soon after, she is abducted by Objats cronies and spirited away into the lower depths of Frances intelligence bureaucracy where she is trained for her mission.

What follows is a bizarre tale of kidnappings, murders and mutilations, bad pop songs and great sex, populated by a cast of oddballs and losers. Set in Paris, rural central France, and Pyongyang, Special Envoy is joyously strange and unpredictable, full of twists and ironic digressionsand, in the words of LExpress, a pure gem, a delight.

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