Lady Joker: Volume 2

The Million Copy Bestselling 'Masterpiece of Japanese Crime Fiction'

By: Kaoru Takamura

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Paperback | 31 October 2023 | Edition Number 1

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608 Pages

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'One of the great masterpieces of Japanese crime fiction' David Peace, author of Tokyo Year Zero

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.

'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

Industry Reviews

Lady Joker is one of the great masterpieces of Japanese crime fiction and one of the must-read books of this or any year

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

A fascinating slow burn of a book, detailed, complex and immersive - Guardian

A tense psychological thriller - Times Literary Supplement

Takamura's prismatic heist novel offers a broad indictment of capitalist society - New York Times

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