Also on the EU's blacklist were Ariana Afghan Airlines , North Korea's Air Koryo and Thailand's Phuket Airlines , which should mean extra traffic for more reputable types such as Malaysian Airlines , Thai Airways and Deutsche Lufthansa.
Much of the story involves the inspector trying, never entirely successfully, to join the dots between one inexplicable event and the next, and connect them all to the murder of a foreigner that may or may not have taken place in the Koryo Hotel.