The Ghost in the Rearview

In the fog-shrouded port city of Mujin, a catastrophic expressway collision is dismissed as another case of negligent driving. But when Korean-American journalist Lee Jae-min arrives to profile the victims, he stumbles into a labyrinth of deception involving two lifelong friends turned business partners. The deeper he digs, the clearer it becomes that the crash was no accident—it was a meticulously crafted death trap, born from a friendship rotted by envy and one man’s complete dissolution of self. In the tradition of John Berendt, this literary crime novel weaves a haunting tale of identity theft, class friction, and the terrifying modern impulse to escape one’s own skin by stealing another’s life.