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D. B. John has lived in South Korea and is one of the few Westerners to have visited North Korea. He co-authored The Girl With Seven Names, Hyeonseo Lee?s New York Times bestselling memoir about her escape from North Korea.
Extraordinary ... smart, sophisticated, suspenseful - and important. If you try one new thing this year, make it Star of the North. * Lee Child, bestselling author of the Jack Reacher thrillers * Tense and compelling. * James Swallow, Sunday Times bestselling author of NOMAD * A superior thriller...steeped in the intrigue, culture and family of a closed regime. * Andrew Gross, New York Times bestselling author * [Y]ou should read this forensic exposure of the horrors of [Kim Jong-un's] regime in this Tom Clancy-style evocation of what life there is actually like... Fast-moving and compelling, it provides the perfect fictional backdrop to the summit diplomacy we are now witnessing. * Daily Mail * [John] parlays his knowledge into a grim but incisive narrative.... This is a masterly evocation of life under the Kim Jong-il regime. -- Barry Forshaw * Guardian *
