Paul Fischer

An absolutely brilliant page-turner

Captivatingly tells perhaps the most extraordinary tale from the world's most bizarre country. That a North Korean dictator should kidnap two South Korean movie stars and force them to make films he hoped would rival Hollywood seems the stuff of fantasy . . . Flabbergasting

Paul French, author of international bestseller 'Midnight in Peking'

A true story of desperate movie stars, daring escapes, and the paranoid leader who brought it all together. Equal parts history, thriller, and farce . . . will keep you engrossed until the very end

Matt Baglio, co-author of 'New York Times' bestseller Argo

Kidnap. Torture. Murder… Making Movies North Korean-Style

It opens with a double kidnapping . . . 
 
Madame Choi, South Korea's most famous actress, is lured to Hong Kong, drugged and smuggled out on a ship. When her ex-husband, Shin Sang-Ok, Korea's most acclaimed director, goes to look for her, he vanishes too. The pair wake to find themselves in North Korea. There they are imprisoned, tortured and brainwashed. 
 
Then they meet North Korea's murderous head of propaganda and next leader, Kim Jong-Il. He gives them a choice - go back to prison or make movies for him . . .

A Kim Jong-Il Production

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Addictive, profoundly weird

Extraordinary, gripping

Stranger than fiction

Addictive, profoundly weird

Extraordinary, gripping

Stranger than fiction

Addictive, profoundly weird

Extraordinary, gripping

Stranger than fiction

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