{"product_id":"lady-joker-volume-2-the-million-copy-bestselling-masterpiece-of-japanese-crime-fiction","title":"Lady Joker: Volume 2 : The Million Copy Bestselling 'Masterpiece of Japanese Crime Fiction'","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Takamura, Kaoru, Powell, Allison Markin, Iida, Marie \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 03\/08\/2023,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 608 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781529394269,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'One of the great masterpieces of Japanese crime fiction' David Peace, author of Tokyo Year ZeroOne of Japan's great modern writers, this second half of Lady Joker brings Kaoru Takamura's breathtaking masterpiece to a gripping conclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFive 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKnown 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspired 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43105018904620,"sku":"9781529394269","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781529394269.jpg?v=1713023006","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.pro\/products\/lady-joker-volume-2-the-million-copy-bestselling-masterpiece-of-japanese-crime-fiction","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}