"One of the most harrowing and inspiring stories I've ever read . . . This book left me in tears. Hope tells this inconceivable and heart-wrenching story with compassion, humanity, and integrity."--Yeonmi Park, bestselling author of In Order to Live

"The engrossing inside story of two recent events that are jaw-dropping even for North Korea, and the obsessive man behind them . . . This is a terrific piece of up-close reportage that reads like a spy thriller but is all too real."--Anna Fifield, author of The Great Successor

"Bradley Hope has written a mystery story about an elusive human rights activist--and it reminds us all of the essential evil weirdness of the North Korean regime. Adrian Hong has disappeared, a fugitive from the FBI--but I'd wager that someday we will hear from this quixotic young man again."--Kai Bird, director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Outlier

"The Rebel and the Kingdom is thrilling, edifying, funny, and profound. Reading this book, I couldn't help but feel uplifted to learn that, even in our disaffected age, there are people who are willing to give their life to a cause, whatever the personal cost."--Kit Chellel, co-author of Dead in the Water

"The Rebel and the Kingdom is a propulsive investigation into the wild adventures of a man determined to bring down the North Korean regime, and the activists who joined him on his quest. Bradley Hope's account is both deeply reported and novelistic. I flew through it."--Ed Caesar, contributing staff writer, The New Yorker; author of The Moth and the Mountain

"Only Bradley Hope could take us so deep into this world of diplomats, dictators, and would-be spies and achieve a book that is both utterly gripping and darkly funny. Not since Bill Browder's Red Notice have I gone on such an exhilarating trip into the geopolitical underbelly."--Zeke Faux, investigative reporter, Bloomberg News and Businessweek

"A fast-paced, true-life thriller pitting a merciless North Korean state against a band of high-tech, courageous activists . . . thoroughly engaging . . . a page-turner of a spy-vs.-spy tale."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"A riveting saga of one man's unlikely crusade to free North Korea. . . . This is the stuff great political thrillers are made of."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)