Description
Meet the Korea's least likely contract killer: a 65-year-old woman nicknamed Hornclaw. She may look meek and harmless on the subway, but in reality she is swift and deadly. She knows she will retire soon but is not sure when.
A young man working for the same agency called 'Bullfight' has a grudge against her, the origins of which we discover will reach far back into their personal histories.
For fans of Parasite, Killing Eve or My Sister the Serial Killer, this book mixes a brilliant yet unlikely hero with the page-turning plot of a thriller. It is an unputdownable novel, that carries a poignancy about old age and loneliness.
A young man working for the same agency called 'Bullfight' has a grudge against her, the origins of which we discover will reach far back into their personal histories.
For fans of Parasite, Killing Eve or My Sister the Serial Killer, this book mixes a brilliant yet unlikely hero with the page-turning plot of a thriller. It is an unputdownable novel, that carries a poignancy about old age and loneliness.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Hodder & Stoughton
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-5293-4911-5 (9781529349115)
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Gu Byeong-mo (born 1976) is a South Korean writer. She made her literary debut in 2009 when her novel Wizard Bakery won the 2nd Changbi Prize for Young Adult Fiction. Her 2015 short story collection I Hope It's Not Just Me received the Today's Writer Award and Hwang Sun-won New Writers' Award. She penned the novels The Pygmalion Children, Gills, and Come to Bangju as well as the short story collection I Didn't Mean to But.