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Real Dangerous Girl
Note: This book is no longer being sold on Amazon in this self-published edition. It's been replaced by Real Dangerous Girl (Lincoln Square Books, 2018), which actually includes both this book and the original second series book, Real Dangerous Job. All of the series books now have Lincoln Square editions, but these mostly each combine two of the original books into one volume
No easy answers. No big international spy secret bank accounts. No superheroes or magic. Just her wits, guts…
And a very large gun.
All Kim wants is the job she’s worked hard for. But when her boss McIntyre throws her out on her ear, she begins dreaming of revenge. She hires Cole, a psychotic hitman who’s also been dispensed with by the same boss. Left crippled by McIntyre’s security guards, Cole tells Kim that the only way they’ll be able to pull off this hit is if she’s there with a gun in her hand as well. Before she knows what’s happening, Kim is training to be a professional assassin, with everything – including her own life – at stake. Because she’s only going to get one chance to pull it off...
Noted sf and fantasy author K. W. Jeter takes a new turn in the thriller genre, building on the dark, gritty moods of his previous science fiction and horror novels. Fans of mystery and suspense novels with smart, tough females taking the lead, from A IS FOR ALIBI to THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATOO, will find a lot to like in the new Kim Oh Thriller series.
No easy answers. No big international spy secret bank accounts. No superheroes or magic. Just her wits, guts…
And a very large gun.
All Kim wants is the job she’s worked hard for. But when her boss McIntyre throws her out on her ear, she begins dreaming of revenge. She hires Cole, a psychotic hitman who’s also been dispensed with by the same boss. Left crippled by McIntyre’s security guards, Cole tells Kim that the only way they’ll be able to pull off this hit is if she’s there with a gun in her hand as well. Before she knows what’s happening, Kim is training to be a professional assassin, with everything – including her own life – at stake. Because she’s only going to get one chance to pull it off...
Noted sf and fantasy author K. W. Jeter takes a new turn in the thriller genre, building on the dark, gritty moods of his previous science fiction and horror novels. Fans of mystery and suspense novels with smart, tough females taking the lead, from A IS FOR ALIBI to THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATOO, will find a lot to like in the new Kim Oh Thriller series.
161 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 10, 2011
About the author
K.W. Jeter
112 books366 followersKevin Wayne Jeter (born 1950) is an American science fiction and horror author known for his literary writing style, dark themes, and paranoid, unsympathetic characters. He is also credited with the coining of the term "Steampunk." K. W. has written novels set in the Star Trek and Star Wars universe, and has written three (to date) sequels to Blade Runner.
Series:
* Doctor Adder
Series contributed to:
* Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
* Alien Nation
* Blade Runner
* Star Wars: The Bounty Hunter Wars
* The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror
* The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror
Series:
* Doctor Adder
Series contributed to:
* Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
* Alien Nation
* Blade Runner
* Star Wars: The Bounty Hunter Wars
* The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror
* The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror
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August 28, 2012
K.W. Jeter is a writer I have been following for the past 25 years. I grabbed his Mantis horror novel back in 1987 based on a positive review. I liked it so much I went in search of his other novels. Dr. Adder (1984) (one of the most twisted dystopian SF novels ever written) I found quickly. Around 1990, I found myself working in Wichita, KS, which had the distinction of having some of the best paperback stores known to humanity. I was able to find the rest of his novels and share them with co-workers. We formed an informal Jeter appreciation society, known as the "The Glass Adders". I still have the copy of Soul Eater (1983) he autographed and sent to us.
Jeter has a way with words which stays with the reader. Years after reading his Dark Seeker (1987) horror novel, a snide remark about college grads who think they are entitled to make decisions because of the letters after their last names comes quickly to mind. Such as anytime someone rolls out their advanced degree in an argument. Or his quick put-down of high school jocks as "footballers" from The Night Man (1989).
With the Kim Oh series, Jeter has moved into a new territory: the thriller. E-books are perfect for what he is accomplishing. However, he's also offering them in print-on-demand form for those who like their reading material made out of paper. Narrated by the main character, it shows Jeter strengths as a writer he can tell the story from a young woman's point of view.
Kim Oh is a small Korean American girl working as a book-keeper for a shady company on the California coast. She's also taking care of her invalid younger brother. Both of them live in a crappy apartment in a crappy neighborhood. We are never told much about Kim's background, other than her grandparents immigrated to the USA in the distant past. She and her brother have been tossed around all their lives to various foster homes. Kim learned basic accounting from one of her foster parents who owned a small store. You never do get an exact age on her, but she appears to be 19 years-old. And weighs all of 100 pounds.
Kim looses her job one day when her disgusting boss decides to "go legit". He hires a Harvard MBA for the CFO job she always assumed would be hers. She flips out and lunges at the company owner, McIntyre, but gets tossed out to the curb by one of his thugs. Now she has no job and no future. And her brother depends on her.
At the same time in the story line, we are introduced to Cole, a professional hitman. He works for Kim Oh's boss as a freelancer, carrying out specific jobs to eliminate specific people. Part of the opening sections of the book detail his complicated assassination of a rival businessman. The sequence is far more complex than any from a John Woo film. But Cole soon learns his usefulness is over to the boss man when he's set-up on a routine enforcement job.
Eventually, Kim meets up with the bed-ridden Cole. She wants revenge for what's been done to her and he sees a worthy student. There's plenty of bickering back and forth between the two, but Kim shows him she has what's needed . And Cole feels justified as he'd noticed it in her all along.
One concept I've noticed in Jeter's books is infernal talent. For better or worse, some people seem to be cut out for work most of us would find detestable. It's a major theme in both his Dark Seeker and Dr. Adder novels.
Kim Oh 1 ends suddenly. A little too suddenly for my tastes. I can't help but wonder if the series was originally part of one, long novel. Be as that may, I am hooked on these books and have already bought the second one.
Jeter has a way with words which stays with the reader. Years after reading his Dark Seeker (1987) horror novel, a snide remark about college grads who think they are entitled to make decisions because of the letters after their last names comes quickly to mind. Such as anytime someone rolls out their advanced degree in an argument. Or his quick put-down of high school jocks as "footballers" from The Night Man (1989).
With the Kim Oh series, Jeter has moved into a new territory: the thriller. E-books are perfect for what he is accomplishing. However, he's also offering them in print-on-demand form for those who like their reading material made out of paper. Narrated by the main character, it shows Jeter strengths as a writer he can tell the story from a young woman's point of view.
Kim Oh is a small Korean American girl working as a book-keeper for a shady company on the California coast. She's also taking care of her invalid younger brother. Both of them live in a crappy apartment in a crappy neighborhood. We are never told much about Kim's background, other than her grandparents immigrated to the USA in the distant past. She and her brother have been tossed around all their lives to various foster homes. Kim learned basic accounting from one of her foster parents who owned a small store. You never do get an exact age on her, but she appears to be 19 years-old. And weighs all of 100 pounds.
Kim looses her job one day when her disgusting boss decides to "go legit". He hires a Harvard MBA for the CFO job she always assumed would be hers. She flips out and lunges at the company owner, McIntyre, but gets tossed out to the curb by one of his thugs. Now she has no job and no future. And her brother depends on her.
At the same time in the story line, we are introduced to Cole, a professional hitman. He works for Kim Oh's boss as a freelancer, carrying out specific jobs to eliminate specific people. Part of the opening sections of the book detail his complicated assassination of a rival businessman. The sequence is far more complex than any from a John Woo film. But Cole soon learns his usefulness is over to the boss man when he's set-up on a routine enforcement job.
Eventually, Kim meets up with the bed-ridden Cole. She wants revenge for what's been done to her and he sees a worthy student. There's plenty of bickering back and forth between the two, but Kim shows him she has what's needed . And Cole feels justified as he'd noticed it in her all along.
One concept I've noticed in Jeter's books is infernal talent. For better or worse, some people seem to be cut out for work most of us would find detestable. It's a major theme in both his Dark Seeker and Dr. Adder novels.
Kim Oh 1 ends suddenly. A little too suddenly for my tastes. I can't help but wonder if the series was originally part of one, long novel. Be as that may, I am hooked on these books and have already bought the second one.
December 11, 2012
My first forays into ebooks have been very fortunate, although I have to admit I acclimatized myself by going first for ebook-only titles by writers I already admired.
One thing I have discovered is that as video was to film, ebooks are to books, and this is a good thing, when done right.
Exhibit A. This first Kim Oh novel as channeled by KW Jeter.
On paper this should be a disaster. A middle-aged caucasian dude writing as a female korean-american teenager. i know right! but in this case it totally works and here is why.
No disrespect to Mr. Jeter's writing chops (they are considerable), but I think the reason these books work is because it doesn't matter that they work. ebooks at this level of the publishing food chain, namely, independents either self-publishing or publishing with small presses, gives us our pulps back in a real way, like we havent seen since the glory days. This is the relatively low-risk publishing that gives writers who want it, the freedom to let their freak flags fly. It allows writers to get down to the ancient business of simply telling stories without having to deal with the high-risk game that publishing books has become. Indeed. I think that storytelling has suffered in the way that writers have to market books to big publishing conglomerates these days.
The payoff for us readers is books just like this. A smooth-flowing, rough-edged thrill of a book with all the flavor and no preservatives. Jeter is clearly having fun with his nerdy hit girl, larger than life mentor, stripper with a heart of gold and all the other pulp characters that he works with gleeful abandon, and the fun is infectious. I get the sense the Jeter more than understands that which has been granted to him to write in this freewheeling sort of way and makes the most of it in the way the pulp writers of old knew so well. That as long as they delivered on the bang, that they could slip in all the literary grace notes they wanted without having to coat them in a thick veneer of haute.
Reading the Kim Oh pulps now, must of been what it felt like to read Raymond Chandler while waiting for a zero to punch a hole in the deck of your aircraft carrier, and I am so glad that this is what the ebook revolution has wrought.
One thing I have discovered is that as video was to film, ebooks are to books, and this is a good thing, when done right.
Exhibit A. This first Kim Oh novel as channeled by KW Jeter.
On paper this should be a disaster. A middle-aged caucasian dude writing as a female korean-american teenager. i know right! but in this case it totally works and here is why.
No disrespect to Mr. Jeter's writing chops (they are considerable), but I think the reason these books work is because it doesn't matter that they work. ebooks at this level of the publishing food chain, namely, independents either self-publishing or publishing with small presses, gives us our pulps back in a real way, like we havent seen since the glory days. This is the relatively low-risk publishing that gives writers who want it, the freedom to let their freak flags fly. It allows writers to get down to the ancient business of simply telling stories without having to deal with the high-risk game that publishing books has become. Indeed. I think that storytelling has suffered in the way that writers have to market books to big publishing conglomerates these days.
The payoff for us readers is books just like this. A smooth-flowing, rough-edged thrill of a book with all the flavor and no preservatives. Jeter is clearly having fun with his nerdy hit girl, larger than life mentor, stripper with a heart of gold and all the other pulp characters that he works with gleeful abandon, and the fun is infectious. I get the sense the Jeter more than understands that which has been granted to him to write in this freewheeling sort of way and makes the most of it in the way the pulp writers of old knew so well. That as long as they delivered on the bang, that they could slip in all the literary grace notes they wanted without having to coat them in a thick veneer of haute.
Reading the Kim Oh pulps now, must of been what it felt like to read Raymond Chandler while waiting for a zero to punch a hole in the deck of your aircraft carrier, and I am so glad that this is what the ebook revolution has wrought.
August 28, 2012
K.W. Jeter is a writer I have been following for the past 25 years. I grabbed his Mantis horror novel back in 1987 based on a positive review. I liked it so much I went in search of his other novels. Dr. Adder (1984) (one of the most twisted dystopian SF novels ever written) I found quickly. Around 1990, I found myself working in Wichita, KS, which had the distinction of having some of the best paperback stores known to humanity. I was able to find the rest of his novels and share them with co-workers. We formed an informal Jeter appreciation society, known as the "The Glass Adders". I still have the copy of Soul Eater (1983) he autographed and sent to us.
Jeter has a way with words which stays with the reader. Years after reading his Dark Seeker (1987) horror novel, a snide remark about college grads who think they are entitled to make decisions because of the letters after their last names comes quickly to mind. Such as anytime someone rolls out their advanced degree in an argument. Or his quick put-down of high school jocks as "footballers" from The Night Man (1989).
With the Kim Oh series, Jeter has moved into a new territory: the thriller. E-books are perfect for what he is accomplishing. However, he's also offering them in print-on-demand form for those who like their reading material made out of paper. Narrated by the main character, it shows Jeter strengths as a writer he can tell the story from a young woman's point of view.
Kim Oh is a small Korean American girl working as a book-keeper for a shady company on the California coast. She's also taking care of her invalid younger brother. Both of them live in a crappy apartment in a crappy neighborhood. We are never told much about Kim's background, other than her grandparents immigrated to the USA in the distant past. She and her brother have been tossed around all their lives to various foster homes. Kim learned basic accounting from one of her foster parents who owned a small store. You never do get an exact age on her, but she appears to be 19 years-old. And weighs all of 100 pounds.
Kim looses her job one day when her disgusting boss decides to "go legit". He hires a Harvard MBA for the CFO job she always assumed would be hers. She flips out and lunges at the company owner, McIntyre, but gets tossed out to the curb by one of his thugs. Now she has no job and no future. And her brother depends on her.
At the same time in the story line, we are introduced to Cole, a professional hitman. He works for Kim Oh's boss as a freelancer, carrying out specific jobs to eliminate specific people. Part of the opening sections of the book detail his complicated assassination of a rival businessman. The sequence is far more complex than any from a John Woo film. But Cole soon learns his usefulness is over to the boss man when he's set-up on a routine enforcement job.
Eventually, Kim meets up with the bed-ridden Cole. She wants revenge for what's been done to her and he sees a worthy student. There's plenty of bickering back and forth between the two, but Kim shows him she has what's needed . And Cole feels justified as he'd noticed it in her all along.
One concept I've noticed in Jeter's books is infernal talent. For better or worse, some people seem to be cut out for work most of us would find detestable. It's a major theme in both his Dark Seeker and Dr. Adder novels.
Kim Oh 1 ends suddenly. A little too suddenly for my tastes. I can't help but wonder if the series was originally part of one, long novel. Be as that may, I am hooked on these books and have already bought the second one.
Jeter has a way with words which stays with the reader. Years after reading his Dark Seeker (1987) horror novel, a snide remark about college grads who think they are entitled to make decisions because of the letters after their last names comes quickly to mind. Such as anytime someone rolls out their advanced degree in an argument. Or his quick put-down of high school jocks as "footballers" from The Night Man (1989).
With the Kim Oh series, Jeter has moved into a new territory: the thriller. E-books are perfect for what he is accomplishing. However, he's also offering them in print-on-demand form for those who like their reading material made out of paper. Narrated by the main character, it shows Jeter strengths as a writer he can tell the story from a young woman's point of view.
Kim Oh is a small Korean American girl working as a book-keeper for a shady company on the California coast. She's also taking care of her invalid younger brother. Both of them live in a crappy apartment in a crappy neighborhood. We are never told much about Kim's background, other than her grandparents immigrated to the USA in the distant past. She and her brother have been tossed around all their lives to various foster homes. Kim learned basic accounting from one of her foster parents who owned a small store. You never do get an exact age on her, but she appears to be 19 years-old. And weighs all of 100 pounds.
Kim looses her job one day when her disgusting boss decides to "go legit". He hires a Harvard MBA for the CFO job she always assumed would be hers. She flips out and lunges at the company owner, McIntyre, but gets tossed out to the curb by one of his thugs. Now she has no job and no future. And her brother depends on her.
At the same time in the story line, we are introduced to Cole, a professional hitman. He works for Kim Oh's boss as a freelancer, carrying out specific jobs to eliminate specific people. Part of the opening sections of the book detail his complicated assassination of a rival businessman. The sequence is far more complex than any from a John Woo film. But Cole soon learns his usefulness is over to the boss man when he's set-up on a routine enforcement job.
Eventually, Kim meets up with the bed-ridden Cole. She wants revenge for what's been done to her and he sees a worthy student. There's plenty of bickering back and forth between the two, but Kim shows him she has what's needed . And Cole feels justified as he'd noticed it in her all along.
One concept I've noticed in Jeter's books is infernal talent. For better or worse, some people seem to be cut out for work most of us would find detestable. It's a major theme in both his Dark Seeker and Dr. Adder novels.
Kim Oh 1 ends suddenly. A little too suddenly for my tastes. I can't help but wonder if the series was originally part of one, long novel. Be as that may, I am hooked on these books and have already bought the second one.
November 12, 2011
"Real Dangerous Girl" rips along like a fast car on a good road. It's a lot of fun (and perhaps a tad of wish fulfillment) as Kim sets about finding a way to get even with her crooked boss. While we might shy away from making her choices, we can all understand why she makes them. Kim's picked a tough option, but she's up to the challenge and seeing how she gets there is half the fun.
Kim Oh is a smart, sassy woman who isn't afraid of adventure. This is great because while I enjoy reading about the bad boys, it's made me sad that there aren't very many bad girls out there holding up their end of the "mad, bad, and dangerous to know" category. Thank goodness for Kim Oh, who is helping to fill that niche.
This is one book that, once you start it, is tough to put down.
Kim Oh is a smart, sassy woman who isn't afraid of adventure. This is great because while I enjoy reading about the bad boys, it's made me sad that there aren't very many bad girls out there holding up their end of the "mad, bad, and dangerous to know" category. Thank goodness for Kim Oh, who is helping to fill that niche.
This is one book that, once you start it, is tough to put down.
August 20, 2017
Fun, freshly original take on the hit woman trend.
December 15, 2015
În franceză, genul ăsta literar se numește roman de gară. Scurt, amuzant, plin de acțiune, fără dureri de cap.
April 28, 2017
A highly enjoyable thriller. Liked it a lot. Quite different than I usually expect from Jeter. Highly entertaining.
December 2, 2011
This is a hell of a lot of fun and I can't wait to read the next books in the series.
September 12, 2025
Recent Reads: Real Dangerous Girl. K W Jeter's modern noir takes Kim Oh from minor underworld accountant to hired killer. Betrayal builds enemies and secrets fester, as down these mean streets roars a girl with a big gun on the saddle of a motorcycle. A strong start to a longer arc of stories.
May 8, 2012
Kim is a pint-sized accountant working hard and doing her best for her ungrateful boss, whilke looking after her wheelchair-bound brother. When she is disprespected one too many times, she seeks advice from the bosses hatchet-man.One Ninja motorcycle, a 357 Magnum, and some training from Cole later and she is ready to change her life.
I got this book for $.99 from Amazon. Not because of the price but because I was pointed toward this author by a (still) respected person whose blog I follow. The concept sounded good and I was looking forward to reading all three titles in the series.
But when I finished this one I realised that it was incomplete. The writing was good, no problem there. It just didn't end where I thought it should have ended. I suspect the ending I want is at the end of book 3.
I realize that we are in a period of turmoil while everyone works out what is going to work and what won't in this new world of publishing and e-books. This book is an example of the trend of taking a whole and cutting it in to pieces, so that you end up paying what the author wanted originally for the whole, but at a more palatable cost. Not quite serialization.
For me the problem was that it seemed like a cynical way of getting the money out of my pocket. Perhaps I mis-read the blurb and the serialization aspect was there for me to see, but I just didn't see it. This might be a way for me to consume e-book content one day, but not right now. I won't be consuming parts 2 and 3 unless they are on sale. If only this had been a whole story unto itself ...
I give it '4' for being a good story and writing, and '2' for not being a whole story. Average score '3'.
Disappointed.
I read the Kindle edition (Editions Herodiade, October 2011, 172p), which I bought from Amazon.com.
August 25, 2012
It was much better than I thought, with engaging characters and an interesting take on tired hit man tropes. I'm not usually a big thriller reader, so it's a surprise when one really hooks me.
Kim is an accountant for a shady corporation. She's done her share of maneuvering money around and paying nasty people for nasty things. When she is denied a promotion, she gets enraged, attacks her boss, and gets tossed out on the street.
At the same time Cole, one of the hit men that company hired and someone Kim often saw, is set up and nearly is killed. Instead, the bullets sever his spine rendering him crippled for life. Two lives destroyed, but then Kim gets the idea to try and pay Cole to do the unthinkable. Kill the head of the company that they both worked for. Little does she know that involves a slow and painful process of making her into a killer...
It works very well. Kim is an engaging character. She's not sexy, not confident, has little idea of what she is getting into, but has admirable qualities. Cole is blunt, but not hate filled or sadistic. He sounds more like a jaded senior employee than a hitman, and he has a unique voice: world-weary, but not cliche. Even the villains feel human and not ciphers.
The first book is brief, and ends almost as it is getting started. But you can often find it for free (I downloaded it free from Amazon,) and even if not it's well worth the money. I know I'll be checking out the rest of the books in the series
Kim is an accountant for a shady corporation. She's done her share of maneuvering money around and paying nasty people for nasty things. When she is denied a promotion, she gets enraged, attacks her boss, and gets tossed out on the street.
At the same time Cole, one of the hit men that company hired and someone Kim often saw, is set up and nearly is killed. Instead, the bullets sever his spine rendering him crippled for life. Two lives destroyed, but then Kim gets the idea to try and pay Cole to do the unthinkable. Kill the head of the company that they both worked for. Little does she know that involves a slow and painful process of making her into a killer...
It works very well. Kim is an engaging character. She's not sexy, not confident, has little idea of what she is getting into, but has admirable qualities. Cole is blunt, but not hate filled or sadistic. He sounds more like a jaded senior employee than a hitman, and he has a unique voice: world-weary, but not cliche. Even the villains feel human and not ciphers.
The first book is brief, and ends almost as it is getting started. But you can often find it for free (I downloaded it free from Amazon,) and even if not it's well worth the money. I know I'll be checking out the rest of the books in the series
August 3, 2013
Weak.
Kim and her little disabled brother Donnie are barely getting by in the Big City (which never gets named).
Kim, mousy, meek and 100 lbs is doing the books for a dirty businessman and paying his dirty workers for doing dirty deeds. Of course the boss makes her a promise he never intended on keeping, and little teenage meek Kim pretty much flips her wig. This results in her losing her job and being unable to find another in the same shady circles. But fortunately the boss also finished up with one of his hit men and forcibly retired him.
They hatch a plan together to take out their former boss.
Should be a fascinating read. It's really not. It reads like the bare bones of a story. Kim narrates in dull fashion, speaking of herself with disdain as "Little Nerd Accountant Girl". She is so full of self loathing it's very easy to not really care about her.
Donnie has a wheelchair. His meds are very expensive. And he's smart. We know little else about him, so not much reason to care about him either.
The hit man is an obnoxious chain smoker who, thanks to crossing his boss is now a cripple who also requires spendy medication. He takes Kim under his wing to teach her the way of the contract killer. He's the closest thing to a sympathetic character in the whole book. And that's still not saying much. The review has half a star more than it deserves.
Kim and her little disabled brother Donnie are barely getting by in the Big City (which never gets named).
Kim, mousy, meek and 100 lbs is doing the books for a dirty businessman and paying his dirty workers for doing dirty deeds. Of course the boss makes her a promise he never intended on keeping, and little teenage meek Kim pretty much flips her wig. This results in her losing her job and being unable to find another in the same shady circles. But fortunately the boss also finished up with one of his hit men and forcibly retired him.
They hatch a plan together to take out their former boss.
Should be a fascinating read. It's really not. It reads like the bare bones of a story. Kim narrates in dull fashion, speaking of herself with disdain as "Little Nerd Accountant Girl". She is so full of self loathing it's very easy to not really care about her.
Donnie has a wheelchair. His meds are very expensive. And he's smart. We know little else about him, so not much reason to care about him either.
The hit man is an obnoxious chain smoker who, thanks to crossing his boss is now a cripple who also requires spendy medication. He takes Kim under his wing to teach her the way of the contract killer. He's the closest thing to a sympathetic character in the whole book. And that's still not saying much. The review has half a star more than it deserves.
January 29, 2012
Review of: Kim Oh 1—Real Dangerous Girl by K.W. Jeter (Kim Oh Thrillers)
Killer-thriller. This is one of those novels that just sucked me in and kept me reading all night long. I love reading books that are so tense and so interesting that you are compelled to keep going. One more chapter. Then one more chapter. And repeat. When this happens you know you’ve got a great plot and a great character, and are in the hands of a master writer.
K.W. Jeter has created an awesome character and series. Kim Oh is a pint-sized Korean American heroine with serious ass-kicking talent. She’s an assassin, but her heart is in the right place. She’s a fascinating person with an interesting life—to say the least. I can totally see this as a movie or TV series. The scenes are almost all extremely cinematic and really pop out.
If you’re a fan of A Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, La Femme Nikita, thrillers, ass-kicking heroines, and great writing, this is a book for you.
Paul Genesse
Editor of The Crimson Pact
www.paulgenesse.com
Killer-thriller. This is one of those novels that just sucked me in and kept me reading all night long. I love reading books that are so tense and so interesting that you are compelled to keep going. One more chapter. Then one more chapter. And repeat. When this happens you know you’ve got a great plot and a great character, and are in the hands of a master writer.
K.W. Jeter has created an awesome character and series. Kim Oh is a pint-sized Korean American heroine with serious ass-kicking talent. She’s an assassin, but her heart is in the right place. She’s a fascinating person with an interesting life—to say the least. I can totally see this as a movie or TV series. The scenes are almost all extremely cinematic and really pop out.
If you’re a fan of A Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, La Femme Nikita, thrillers, ass-kicking heroines, and great writing, this is a book for you.
Paul Genesse
Editor of The Crimson Pact
www.paulgenesse.com
April 27, 2013
First let me say this book is way fun. It only took me so long to read because it was my lunch time book and I did not get a lot of lunches that weren't working lunches for a while. Anyway, Kim Oh is a Korean American who grew up with her younger brother in "the system". She is working for a shady guy as a a book keeper. Or I should say books keeper because she is keeping 2 sets of books. Her job also includes paying shady characters like Cole, a contract killer. When she gets fired she seeks out Cole to help her get her revenge.
As I said this book is really fun. I am getting the next one. Can't wait to see what happens.
As I said this book is really fun. I am getting the next one. Can't wait to see what happens.
September 7, 2012
“Kim Oh 1: Real Dangerous Girl” by K.W. Jeter is a good book. The storyline was well developed and it moves at a steady paced. It was easy to get caught up in the book and I was surprised when it ended. I felt it ended to quick leaving to many unanswered questions.
The author did a good job of developing each character in the story. They were both believable and easy to follow.
I recommend this book.
The author did a good job of developing each character in the story. They were both believable and easy to follow.
I recommend this book.
August 3, 2012
Got this as a free download from the author's website. The book is an extended introduction to the main character, Kim Oh, setting up her apparently unlikely transformation from from Little Nerd Accountant Girl to Scary Hitwoman. It's an entertaining read: well-written and professionally-presented and there are currently three further books in the series.
August 7, 2013
An easy read but the ending makes it unsatisfying. Essentially this is part one of a longer story rather than being a book in its own right. It also fails to deliver on the action front and to be honest, while I'm left wanting to know what happens next, that desire isn't going to be enough to make me buy the next book.
July 12, 2012
Everyone knows a Kim Oh. but this one is special. I couldn't put this first book of the series down. I look forward to see what she does next. K.W. Jeter
March 11, 2013
Fun and slight tale (or installment) of the journey of the "author," Kim Oh, from Nerdy Little Accountant Girl to hitwoman, as told by the older, badassier Kim.
April 13, 2013
Interesting concept. Good read but now I gotta get book 2 ohh darn (lol)
February 5, 2014
Not deep, but fun.
March 10, 2015
Fast, funny, brilliant short book from K W Jeter (via his pen name of Kim Oh). I have already bought the second. Looks like it's going to be a great series.
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