THE WANDERING GHOST by Martin Limon. New York: SOHO Press, 2007, 314 pp., $24 (cloth)
In this tersely written sequel to "The Corpse in the Koryo," the North Korean cop who goes by the name Inspector O returns for an encore.
O's been ordered to investigate the robbery of a foreign bank in Pyongyang — an exceedingly rare crime in itself in the People's Democratic Republic. To make matters more confusing, one of the robbers fleeing the crime scene was squashed flat by a public bus running the wrong route.