Lady Joker: Volume 2: The Million Copy Bestselling 'Masterpiece of Japanese Crime Fiction'

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Hopefully volume 2 focuses more on the “Lady Joker” group as I wanted to know more about those characters, their lives, and motivations for doing the crime.

Lady Joker: Volume 2: The Million Copy Bestselling Lady Joker: Volume 2: The Million Copy Bestselling

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. They each have a grudge against the Hinode Beer Company and over the next few years they concoct an elaborate plan that involves kidnapping the Company’s president and extorting a significant amount of money from them. Ich fand es vor allem in der ersten Hälfte schwer verständlich und langweilig und habe nur weitergelesen, weil ich jetzt schon so viel Zeit investiert hatte (es sind zusammen mit dem ersten Band 1200 Seiten) und weil immer wieder Kapitel kommen, die dann wirklich interessant waren. It took a while to get back into it since it was a year or so since I read Volume 1 so my memory was a tad hazy.

Greed, extortion, murder, disappearances, corruption and criminal gangs are all part of this vast epic that forms around one main crime – the kidnapping of the president and CEO of Hinode Beer by five societal outsiders whose only connection is a shared love of horse racing.

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No plot twists whatsoever, the tension was average and I actually don't really find their motive that convincing enough (except for Monoi and Koh, and Nunokawa for his family problems) but I digress on this as I remembered Handa said; “…to few crimes it could be the devil made me do it. Brooks presents a case for making room for Bigfoot in the world while peppering his narrative with timely social criticism about bad behavior on the human side of the conflict: The explosion of Rainier might have been better forecast had the president not slashed the budget of the U. By the last 100 pages I was having difficulty keeping the thoughts of the various characters separated. I understand that this is a cultural touchstone of crime literature in Japan, that it's taught in schools and considered a significant work. The crime story on its own is interesting but at times gets buried in minutiae surrounding banking, mergers and policing.

A novel that portrays withdevastating immensityhow those on the dark fringes of society can be consumed by the darkness of their own hearts. But anyone who decides to read Lady Joker in it's bulk will probably be clamoring over the release of the next volume. This book would make no sense if you outlined it, but as an artifact in it's entirety its an indisputable masterpiece. The story is told through their multiple points of view adding to the intricate picture of life in Japan.