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 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?
