Special Envoy by Jean Echenoz takes place deep within the bureaucratic maze of the French intelligence service, where a pompous general and his subordinate, Paul Objat, plot to destabilize the North Korean regime. Objat sets his sights on an unwitting civilian: Constance. After being kidnapped, Constance undergoes a highly unorthodox training regimen for international espionage. When she is finally deployed to Pyongyang, Constance must carry out an unconventional intelligence operation.
