"Acclaimed for his visionary short-story collections The Push Man and Other Stories, Abandon the Old in Tokyo, and Good-Bye-originally created nearly forty years ago, but just as resonant now as ever-the legendary Japanese cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi has come to be recognized in North America as a precursor of today's graphic novel movement. Even if it means giving up her own."- Publisher's description. Because one way or another, she'll take Rui's heart. Lina will have to use every weapon in her arsenal if she wants to outplay this cunning king and save her sister.all before the final grain of sand leaks out of the hourglass. Now a terrible game of life and death has begun, and even Lina's swift, precise blade is no match for the magnetic Haneul Rui. But she can win her life-if she kills him first. Suddenly Lina finds herself in the dreamlike realm of the Dokkaebi, her fate in the hands of its cruel and captivating emperor. But the order to steal a priceless tapestry from a Dokkaebi temple incites not only the wrath of a legendary immortal, but the beginning of an unwinnable game. All that keeps her from turning on her ruthless master is the life of her beloved little sister hanging in the balance. "After the destruction of her entire Talon gang, eighteen-year-old Shin Lina-the Reaper of Sunpo-is forced to become a living, breathing weapon for the kingdom's most-feared crime lord.
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