Reseng has been killing people for money for 15 years — a long time in the cutthroat assassination world of Seoul, Korea. But his history in that world goes back to his childhood, when he was adopted by Old Raccoon, the cantankerous old man running "the library," one of several criminal headquarters in Seoul. But after 15 years of carrying out hits for the unknown "plotters" and watching his acquaintances die after making a mistake, Reseng is starting to re-examine his life. While one might expect a book about a hitman to be action packed and bloody — and to be sure, those elements certainly do pepper the plot throughout — the best parts of this novel are the characters and the tense relationships between them. Reseng's ruminations are, in turn, funny, philosophical, and calculated. I very much enjoyed this one.
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