Pan Macmillan Holy Boy

<p><b>One Idol.</b><br><b>Four Fans.</b><br><b>A Bloody Mess.</b><br><br><i>&lsquo;Yosep was the only thing in her world.&rsquo;</i><br><br>A K-Pop idol with legions of adoring disciples, Yosep, is the fallen angel of the music industry.Impossibly beautiful, his perfection inspires a near-religious devotion in his fans.But for an elect few, this dedication will spill over into delusion.<br><br>Four fans &ndash; Mihee, Nami, Heeae and their ringleader Ahnna &ndash; hatch a plot to satiate their shared hunger: kidnap.<br><br>Plagued by paranoia, and with their grip on reality slowly loosening, the women use increasingly disturbing strategies to keep Yosep in their possession.As they plunge into a hallucinatory hellfire of betrayal and murder in the name of their beloved, the group threaten to drag this young angel into the flames with them . . .<br><br><i>Holy Boy</i> is a thrilling novel that defies expectations until the final page with its deadly puzzle-box of literary tricks.An astonishing indictment of contemporary celebrity and parasocial desire, <i>Holy Boy</i> is the tale of one life told through the bloody kaleidoscope of unstoppable obsession.<br><br><b>Translated from the Korean by Joheun Lee.</b></p>