The Victim

In this excellent fiction, stands out the meticulous brain battle between the elite police officer and the killer protagonist.  

Beginning with the scene where the protagonist talks to himself, “Can I really kill a person?”, The Victim takes the serial murder of sexual offenders as its subject matter for the first time as a Korean novel. The protagonist loses his only daughter and wife as a result of sexual offense. In despair, he sticks to home for a long time. He even thinks of taking his own life, following his child and wife. Eventually, he changes his mind and decides to take his revenge. Now he kills sex offenders one after another.  

Although the revenge story of a protagonist who lost his family because of violent crime is rather a commonplace subject matter,  The Victim is unique in terms of its plot. It is hard to find any work that has a similar plot as The Victim in novel, drama, and film genres. The novel does not have any elements of mystery or fantasy, and there is neither an Arsène Lupin who tricks detectives nor a detective who has an extraordinary reasoning power like Sherlock Holmes. Instead, it tells a story about an ordinary character who is likely to be found in your neighborhood, based on criminal techniques and police investigation methods that can be seen on TV news. While reading the book, readers will fall into the illusion that what is happening in the novel is a real-life story.