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A terrific piece of up-close reportage that reads like a spy thriller but is all too real' Anna Fifield HOW DID A COLLEGE KID BECOME A GLOBAL FUGITIVE? In the early 2000s, Adrian Hong was a soft-spoken Yale undergraduate looking for his place in the world. After reading a harrowing account of life inside North Korea, he realised he had found a cause to which he could devote his life. Hong journeyed to China, outwitting Chinese security services as he helped ferry asylum-seeking North Korean escapees to safety. Meanwhile, Hong's secret organization, Cheollima Civil Defense (later renamed Free Joseon), began tracking the North Korean government's activities, and its volatile ruler, Kim Jong-un. Free Joseon targeted North Korean diplomats who might be persuaded to defect, while drawing up plans for a government-in-exile. After the shocking broad-daylight assassination in 2017 of Kim Jong-nam, the dictator's older brother, Hong, along with US Marine veteran Christopher Ahn, helped ferry Jong-nam's family to safety. Then Hong took the group a step further. He initiated a series of high-stakes direct actions, culminating in an armed raid at the North Korean embassy in Madrid - an act that would put Ahn behind bars and turn Hong into one of the world's most unlikely global fugitives. The Rebel and the Kingdom is an exhilarating account of how a trip down the safe and well-worn path of activism soon morphed into something extremely dangerous. Acclaimed journalist and bestselling author Bradley Hope - who broke numerous details of Hong's operations in the Wall Street Journal -reveals his remarkable story of idealism and insanity, hubris and heroism, all set within the secret battle for the future of the world's most mysterious and unsettling nation.", "editions": [ { "title": "The Rebel and the Kingdom", "subtitle": null, "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/bradley-hope/the-rebel-and-the-kingdom/9781399806190", "publisher": "John Murray", "publisher_series": [], "translators": [], "medium": "paper", "duration_seconds": null, "narrators": [], "illustrators": [], "cover_artists": [], "isbn": "978-13-9980-619-0", "pages": null, "published": "2023-07-20", "language": "en_GB", "cover": "https://quivercdn.com/covers/john-murray/bradley-hope/the-rebel-and-the-kingdom_978-13-9980-619-0.jpg?v=2026-04-28%2009%3A25%3A04" }, { "title": "The Rebel and the Kingdom", "subtitle": null, "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/bradley-hope/the-rebel-and-the-kingdom/9780593240656", "publisher": "crown", "publisher_series": [], "translators": [], "medium": "paper", "duration_seconds": null, "narrators": [], "illustrators": [], "cover_artists": [], "isbn": "978-05-9324-065-6", "pages": 272, "published": "2022-11-01", "language": "en_US", "cover": "https://quivercdn.com/covers/crown/bradley-hope/the-rebel-and-the-kingdom_978-05-9324-065-6.jpg?v=2026-06-03%2021%3A05%3A59" }, { "title": "The Rebel and the Kingdom", "subtitle": null, "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/bradley-hope/the-rebel-and-the-kingdom/9781399806206", "publisher": "John Murray", "publisher_series": [], "translators": [], "medium": "ebook", "duration_seconds": null, "narrators": [], "illustrators": [], "cover_artists": [], "isbn": "978-13-9980-620-6", "pages": null, "published": "2022-11-01", "language": "en_GB", "cover": "https://quivercdn.com/covers/john-murray/bradley-hope/the-rebel-and-the-kingdom_978-13-9980-620-6.jpg?v=2026-04-28%2009%3A25%3A07" }, { "title": "The Rebel and the Kingdom", "subtitle": null, "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/bradley-hope/the-rebel-and-the-kingdom/9781399806213", "publisher": "John Murray", "publisher_series": [], "translators": [], "medium": "audio", "duration_seconds": null, "narrators": [], "illustrators": [], "cover_artists": [], "isbn": "978-13-9980-621-3", "pages": null, "published": "2022-11-01", "language": "en_GB", "cover": "https://quivercdn.com/covers/john-murray/bradley-hope/the-rebel-and-the-kingdom_978-13-9980-621-3.jpg?v=2026-04-28%2009%3A25%3A10" }, { "title": "The Rebel and the Kingdom", "subtitle": null, "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/bradley-hope/the-rebel-and-the-kingdom/9781399806176", "publisher": "John Murray", "publisher_series": [], "translators": [], "medium": "paper", "duration_seconds": null, "narrators": [], "illustrators": [], "cover_artists": [], "isbn": "978-13-9980-617-6", "pages": null, "published": "2022-11-01", "language": "en_GB", "cover": "https://quivercdn.com/covers/john-murray/bradley-hope/the-rebel-and-the-kingdom_978-13-9980-617-6.jpg?v=2026-04-28%2009%3A24%3A30" } ], "other_languages": [], "characters": [], "chapters": [] }