Bibliograph

Lady Joker, Kaoru Takamura ; translated from the Japanese by Marie Iida and Allison Markin Powell, Volume 2

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Lady Joker, Kaoru Takamura ; translated from the Japanese by Marie Iida and Allison Markin Powell, Volume 2

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Lady Joker

Responsibility statement

Kaoru Takamura ; translated from the Japanese by Marie Iida and Allison Markin Powell

Summary

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?

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