Maximum Target

Asia's most dangerous flashpoint - North Korea. Mission Impossible for three people - a Sartre-reading yakuza, a glamorous American activist, and a shadowy North Korean agent. Let Martin Gower take you on a dizzying ride through the seething jungles of Mindanao, down the neon-splattered back-alleys of Tokyo, across the vast baking emptiness of Mongolia and into the innermost chambers of the Dear Leader's personal pleasure dome. "He was the last man alive truly worth killing, the last man whose death would truly make a difference. In today's world, he was the maximum Target."

Asia's most dangerous flashpoint - North Korea. Mission Impossible for three people - a Sartre-reading yakuza, a glamorous American activist, and a shadowy North Korean agent. Let Martin Gower take you on a dizzying ride through the seething jungles of Mindanao, down the neon-splattered back-alleys of Tokyo, across the vast baking emptiness of Mongolia and into the innermost chambers of the Dear Leader's personal pleasure dome. "He was the last man alive truly worth killing, the last man whose death would truly make a difference. In today's world, he was the maximum Target."

Martin Gower was born just before the release of the Beatles' first LP. His current position is research director of Pacific Risk Solutions, where he specializes in Asian economic and political issues. He divides his time between Europe and Asia.