Oxford Soju Club [Paperback]

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The natural enemy of a Korean is another Korean.

When North Korean spymaster Doha Kim is mysteriously killed in Oxford, his prot?g?, Yohan Kim, chases the only breadcrumb given to him in Dohas last breath: Soju Club, Dr. Ryu. In the meantime, a Korean American CIA agent , Yunah Choi, races to salvage her investigation of the North Korean spy cell in the aftermath of the assassination. At the centre of it all is the Soju Club, the only Korean restaurant in Oxford, owned by Jihoon Lim, an immigrant from Seoul in search of a new life after suffering a tragedy. As different factions move in with their own agendas, their fates become entangled, resulting in a bitter struggle that will determine whose truth will triumph.

Oxford Soju Clubweaves a tale of how immigrants in the Korean diaspora are forced to create identities to survive, and how in the end, they must shed those masks and seek their true selves.CACHAPTER 3: The Northerner

Doha always said that in every city, there is A rhythm and that Yohan must be aware of this rhythm and flow with it when necessary. In London or Berlin, the city awakes and that rhythm starts abruptly. In Oxford it is a trickle.

Yohan is loitering in an alley behind a building, right across from the Magpie. He is listening on an earpiece connected to a device he had planted under the bar a long time ago. So far, it is as expected. The Americans have called it in and alerted headquarters. Theyre planning to clean the place up and close it all down. He can see the pub as he hears them talk. He can imagine the wooden beams under which Seonhye must be pacing while the man, known as Roland on paper, is talking to her about their immediate plans from behind the dark brown bar that stretches across half the pubs length.

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