One of Japan's great modern writers,this second half of Lady Joker brings Kaoru Takamura's breathtaking masterpiece to a gripping conclusion.Five men who meet at a Tokyo racetrack every week carry out a heist. They have kidnapped the CEO of Japan's largest beer company to extract blood money from the company's corrupt financiers.Known as Lady Joker,the men make their first attack on the beer company when their demands are not met. As the attacks escalate,the shady networks linking corporations to syndicates are exposed,the stakes rise,and bring into riveting focus the lives and motivations of the victims,the perpetrators,the heroes and the villains. Some will lose everything,even their lives.Inspired by the real-life Glico-Morinaga kidnapping,an unsolved case that terrorized Japan for two years,Lady Joker reimagines this watershed episode in modern Japanese history.
Publisher: John Murray PressISBN: 9781529394221Number of pages: 608Weight: 700 gDimensions: 220 x 142 x 52 mm
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'Hallelujah! Inspired by the real-life,still unsolved Glico-Morinaga kidnapping and extortion case which led to the nationwide hunt for "The Monster with Twenty-one Faces," Kaoru Takamura's Lady Joker is at last available in translation; epic in its scale and vision,yet gripping from first to last,this is one of the great masterpieces of Japanese crime fiction and one of the must-read books of this or any year.'- David Peace,author of Tokyo Year Zero
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