Lady Joker. Volume two / Kaoru Takamura ; translated from the Japanese by Marie Iida and Allison Markin Powell.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Japanese Publisher: New York, NY : Soho Crime, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Edition: English language editionDescription: 588 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781641290296
- 1641290293
- Lady joker. Volume 2
- Lady joker. 2
- Lady joker. Two
- Redi jōkā. English
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | Mystery | TAKAMURA KAORU | Available | 33111011015746 | |||||
Adult Book | Main Library | Mystery | TAKAMURA KAORU | LJ 2 | Available | 33111010910277 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"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
This second half of Lady Joker , by Kaoru Takamura, the Grand Dame of Japanese crime fiction, concludes the breathtaking saga introduced in Volume I.
Inspired by the real-life Glico-Morinaga kidnapping, an unsolved case that terrorized Japan for two years, Lady Joker reimagines the circumstances of this watershed episode in modern Japanese history and brings into riveting focus the lives and motivations of the victims, the perpetrators, the heroes and the villains. As the shady networks linking corporations to syndicates are brought to light, the stakes rise, and some of the professionals we have watched try to fight their way through this crisis will lose everything--some even their lives. Will the culprits ever be brought to justice? More importantly--what is justice?
In English. Translated from the Japanese.
"This second half of Lady Joker, by Kaoru Takamura, the Grand Dame of Japanese crime fiction, concludes a breathtaking saga of subterfuge, betrayal, and revenge gone wrong. Inspired by the real-life Glico-Morinaga kidnapping, an unsolved case that terrorized Japan for two years, Lady Joker reimagines the circumstances of this watershed episode in modern Japanese history and brings into riveting focus the lives and motivations of the victims, the perpetrators, the heroes, and the villains. As the shady networks linking corporations to syndicates are brought to light, the stakes rise, and some of the investigators, journalists, and other professionals fighting to manage this crisis will lose everything. Some even their lives. Will the culprits ever be brought to justice? More importantly - what is justice in a capitalist society, where a price can be placed on human life?" -- Jacket flap.