Plotters

Reseng was raised in a home for orphans run by an old assassin and grew up into the trade without ever really choosing it, killing whoever the shadowy "plotters" designate, then going home to feed his cats. In the murky underworld of contemporary Seoul, he is a reliable instrument, careful never to ask who orders the deaths or why.

Then he breaks the unspoken rules of his profession, and finds himself drawn into the orbit of an eccentric trio of women running a scheme of their own, one that threatens the entire machinery of contract killing he has served all his life. As Reseng starts to wonder who has really been plotting his own life, the hunter becomes a target.

Un-su Kim's darkly comic literary thriller is a stylish, philosophical noir about free will, complicity, and the people pulling the strings.