The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission To Overthrow the North Korean Regime

Investigative journalist Hope (Billion Dollar Whale; Blood and Oil) writes that he has “kept tabs” on Adrian Hong Chang, who goes by Adrian Hong and several other aliases, since the latter contacted him about a story he broke during the 2011 Arab Spring. Hong, a Yale graduate and founder of Liberty in North Korea (LiNK), was on his way to help evacuees from Libya’s civil war, where Hope had encountered and reported on a Korean American college student who joined the rebel cause on his summer vacation. Drawing on a decade of tracking and researching Hong, as well as subsequent conversations with the man he took to be a dedicated human rights advocate and source on all things opposed to North Korea, Hope authoritatively and exhilaratingly reveals Hong’s covert campaign not only to rescue North Korean refugees but to take direct action against the Kim regime. Lee Osorio narrates the audiobook with thriller-like intensity, making an already incredible true story into a nonstop listen packed with evidence and action.