The Consultant

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English language

Published Nov. 7, 2024 by Bloomsbury.

ISBN:
978-1-5266-5416-8
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The Consultant is very good at his job. He creates simple, elegant, effective solutions for... restructuring. Nothing obvious or messy. Certainly nothing anyone would ever suspect as murder.

The 'natural deaths' he plans have always gone well: a medicine replaced here, a mechanism jammed there. His performance reviews are excellent. And it's not as though he knows these people.

Until his next 'customer' turns out to be someone he not only knows but cares about, and for the first time, he begins to question the role he plays in the vast, anonymous Company. And as he slowly starts to understand the real scope of their work, he realises just how easy it would be for the Company to arrange one more perfect murder...

But how far will he go to escape The Company? And how far will they go to stop him?

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reviewed The Consultant by Im Seong-sun

If Offered, I'd Reject It

This book really left me disappointed, especially with the promised concept. Perhaps it was the marketing team yet again, but this book was not as expected. It was excruciatingly dull beyond belief (amusingly so for the protagonist to be like "I'm sorry I'm not a funny killer" or something to that effect in the middle).

Whatever "satire" exists in this novel, it was so easy to skip over as to not really notice it.