A page turning insider's account of reporting on crime in Japan. Does for Tokyo what Homicide did for Baltimore.
Jake Adelstein, a Japanese-schooled Jewish-American, worked for 12 years as a journalist on Japan's largest newspaper, Yomiuri Shinbun. In 2005, he became chief investigator for a US State Department sponsored study of human trafficking in Japan. Now a writer and consultant in Japan and the US, Jake and his family remain under death threats from one of Japan's most notorious crime bosses. He is the author of Tokyo Vice (2010), which inspired the 2022 HBO television series of the same name.
Terrific. With gallows humour and a hard-boiled voice, Adelstein
takes readers on a shadow journey throught the Japanese underworld
and examines the twisted relationships of journalists, cops,
gangsters. Expertly told and highly entertaining.
Sacred, ferocious, and businesslike, Adelstein describes the
Japanese mafia like nobody else.
Gripping and absorbing ... A terrifying, deeply moral story that
you cannot put down.
Hugely fascinating... utterly authentic.
*Literary Review*
Fascinating
*Books Quarterly*
thrilling
*Financial Times*
Hardcore
*Jewish Chronicle*
Gripping.
*Catholic Herald*
Fascinating.
*James Cracknell, Daily Express*
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