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Im Seong-sun's writing career took off with his Segye Literary Award winning novel, The Consultant, in 2010. Ever since, he's written an array of critically acclaimed, diverse fiction and nonfiction, such as a short story collection, The Sheeple Wandering a Gallery and their Predators, novels Moon Geunyoung is in Danger, Rather Kind People Live Here, The Arctic Ocean, The Paragon of Self Improvement, and Ouroboros, and recently, an essay collections Third Wheel of No Use. In 2019, he received the Young Writer's Award and the Korean Sci-fi Award. An Seon Jae (aka Brother Anthony of Taizé) was born in England in 1942. He studied at Queen's College, Oxford. He joined the Community of Taizé in 1969. He has been living in Korea since 1980, and taught English Literature at Sogang University, where he is now an Emeritus Professor, until he retired in 2007. He is also a chair-professor at Dankook University. He has translated works by many major Contemporary Korean writers, mostly poetry, publishing well over 50 volumes. He served as President of the Royal Asiatic Society (Korea) for ten years and is now its Present Emeritus. He was awarded an Honorary MBE in 2015. His homepage URL is http://anthony.sogang.ac.kr/
An intriguing premise, cleverly executed, makes for a brilliant read. For The Consultant, a killer who never meets his victims, it all starts to go wrong when he’s told to kill someone he knows. Darkly funny, with a fascinating protagonist, it’s excellent! -- Guy Morpuss, author of Five Minds and Black Lake Manor The Consultant is not only a hugely entertaining book, it's a clever book. As the morally ambiguous consultant goes about his business of arranging natural deaths to streamline corporate restructuring, he offers readers his razor-sharp observations on consumerism, capitalism and what it means to feel anonymous. It's also damn funny -- M. W. Craven An epic satire of society and power, The Consultant charms and shocks, luring you in to its sizzling plot with no mercy, until you're petrified of how it can possibly end. A blistering indictment of our modern world, this thriller will make you question everything. Brilliant -- Eve Smith Wow ... Such a fresh take. Perfect murders in the imperfect world of business and power. Quietly and stylishly told. There's an honesty in the simplicity and brutality that is enlightening and thought-provoking. I'll be thinking about it for a while -- Will Carver A spicy and pacy Korean crime novel in translation ... the reader is brought along a thrilling journey that probes the cracks in capitalism by exploring what people would really do for money * Huffington Post, 23 Brilliant New Books for 2023 To Get Your Reading List Started * Consultant unfurls from the perspective of a first-person narrator who writes scenarios of perfect crimes. It examines ... the violence of modern anonymity and capitalism * Readers News * The details and specifics of murder consulting are intriguing, and the plot propelled by its cerebral narrative and reasoning is refreshing ... it's a page turner, reminiscent of the American show, CSI -- Segye Ilbo Literary Prize Judges These facts about Sung-soon Lim might astound you ... Every book of his boasts a drastically different sensibility, prose, and subject matter. His world building is unparalleled, his prose precise, and you can see the echo of extensive research that must have gone into the storytelling * Channel Yes * This tale of an accidental accomplice to serial murder spellbindingly combines the eerily affectless, morally ambiguous tone of a Patricia Highsmith novel with John Dickson Carr’s fecundity in devising “impossible” crimes * Telegraph * [The Consultant] is toweringly the most interesting of the autumn bunch ... beautifully crafted, witty, slick novel has a profound meta-physical basis * Tablet *
