ISBN Jade Lady Burning

Jade Lady Burning

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year 

Meet Sergeants George Sueño and Ernie Bascom in their first investigation, set in 1970s South Korea

Almost twenty years after the end of the Korean War, the US Military is still present throughout South Korea, and tensions run high. Koreans look for any opportunity to hate the soldiers who drink at their bars and carouse with their women. When Pak Ok-suk, a young Korean woman, is found brutally murdered in a torched apartment in the Itaewon red-light district of Seoul, it looks like it might be the work of her American soldier boyfriend. Sergeants George Sueño and Ernie Bascom, Military Police for the US 8th Army, are assigned to the case, but they have nothing to go on other than a tenuous connection to an infamous prostitute. As repressed resentments erupt around them, the pair sets out on an increasingly dangerous quest to find evidence that will exonerate their countryman.


About author(s)
Martin Lim¾n grew up in Los Angeles county, just fifteen miles south of City Hall. He retired from military service after twenty years in the U.S. Army, including ten years in Korea, and now lives with his wife and children in the Seattle area. His first novel, Jade Lady Burning, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He is also the author of Slicky Boys, which has been optioned by Paramount.