07-08-2015, 12:00
Adam Johnson - The Orphan Master's Son - 2012
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Set in current day North Korea. Stationed in South Korea back in the 60's made the book of interest to me. The trouble with blending fact and fiction is you never know which is which. That's the problem I had with this. A low level spy is sent on a failed mission to the U.S. which results in his imprisonment. Some torture stuff before the guy escapes, assuming the identity of a nemesis of the Dear Leader. He gets his revenge by smuggling the wife and kids of that guy out of the country to freedom in America. Captured in the end we have to assume he met his maker. A lot of details of life in that repressive country. Fact or fiction is left up to you.
Grade - C
next up - Immigration Wars by Jeb Bush and Clint Bollick
![[Image: The_Orphan_Master%27s_Son_%28book_cover%29.jpg]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cc/The_Orphan_Master%27s_Son_%28book_cover%29.jpg)
Set in current day North Korea. Stationed in South Korea back in the 60's made the book of interest to me. The trouble with blending fact and fiction is you never know which is which. That's the problem I had with this. A low level spy is sent on a failed mission to the U.S. which results in his imprisonment. Some torture stuff before the guy escapes, assuming the identity of a nemesis of the Dear Leader. He gets his revenge by smuggling the wife and kids of that guy out of the country to freedom in America. Captured in the end we have to assume he met his maker. A lot of details of life in that repressive country. Fact or fiction is left up to you.
Grade - C
next up - Immigration Wars by Jeb Bush and Clint Bollick

