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Lady Joker: Volume 2

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Lady Joker: Volume 2

By: Kaoru Takamura, Allison Markin Powell - translator, Marie Iida - translator
Narrated by: Brian Nishii
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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.

©1997 Kaoru Takamura (P)2022 Recorded Books Crime Thrillers Genre Fiction International Mystery & Crime Literary Fiction Mystery Thriller Thriller & Suspense Crime Fiction Suspense Exciting Disappearance

Critic reviews

"One of the great masterpieces of Japanese crime fiction." (David Peace, author of Tokyo Year Zero)

"A novel that portrays with devastating immensity how those on the dark fringes of society can be consumed by the darkness of their own hearts." (Yoko Ogawa, author of The Memory Police)
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This book was soooooo long but it did while away the car journeys. The focus of this crime was how the police and the journalists reacted to it. And this was pretty interesting. Was it worth 56 hours. Probably not. But we got there and it felt like an achievement

Long and quite different from other crime stories

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