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Red Star Down
By (Author) D. B. John
Vintage Publishing
Harvill Secker
24th August 2025
24th July 2025
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Political / legal thriller
International relations
Hardback
384
Width 156mm, Height 240mm, Spine 40mm
750g
A gripping international thriller from the author of STAR OF THE NORTH 'Extraordinary...smart, sophisticated, suspenseful - and important. If you try one new thing this year, make it Star of the North' LEE CHILD on STAR OF THE NORTH February 2017. A family man is poisoned at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. A Russian intelligence officer is assassinated in a Washington hotel. And a real-estate mogul and reality-TV star has just become the 45th President of the United States. A terrible conspiracy is about to unravel and three people find themselves caught in the crosshairs... A CIA agent whose past missions refuse to stay buried. A student in Moscow who dares to challenge the Russian president on live TV. And a North Korea spy embedded in the White House who secretly admires the man he is working to undermine.
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.