Red Star Down

A compelling and suspenseful thriller that kept me gripped throughout – AJAY CHOWDHURYA richly satisfying thriller on an epic scale, magnificently conceived and brilliantly executed – ANDREW TAYLORImmensely enjoyable. A rich, epic thriller in the grand tradition … This is exactly what a contemporary thriller should be: a gripping narrative with intriguing twists, vivid characters and well-drawn settings that is not merely very well researched about geopolitics but sheds new light on them too – JEREMY DUNSA delightfully audacious spy story… a lot of fun to read, not least for John’s insight that for the three autocratic leaders [Trump, Putin, Kim Jong Un] politics has become…more about dynasty than democracy * The Times *[A] superb doorstep of a book, that weaves real-life characters and events with fictional ones in a clever, believable spy thriller * The Sun *[An] audacious geopolitical thriller * Sunday Times, Books of the Year *

D. B. John grew up in Wales. He 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, and wrote the critically-acclaimed novel Star of the North.