Tokyo Vice: Soon to be a HBO crime drama - Brossura

Adelstein, Jake

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ISBN 10: 1849014647 ISBN 13: 9781849014649

Casa editrice: Corsair, 2010

Riassunto

From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up.

At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. What he got was a life of crime . . . crime reporting, that is, at the prestigious Yomiuri Shinbun. For twelve years of eighty-hour workweeks, he covered the seedy side of Japan, where extortion, murder, human trafficking, and corruption are as familiar as ramen noodles and sake. But when his final scoop brought him face to face with Japan's most infamous yakuza boss-and the threat of death for him and his family-Adelstein decided to step down . . . momentarily. Then, he fought back.

In Tokyo Vice, Adelstein tells the riveting, often humorous tale of his journey from an inexperienced cub reporter-who made rookie mistakes like getting into a martial-arts battle with a senior editor-to a daring, investigative journalist with a price on his head. With its vivid, visceral descriptions of crime in Japan and an exploration of the world of modern-day yakuza that even few Japanese ever see, Tokyo Vice is a deeply thought-provoking book: equal parts cultural exposé, true crime, and hard-boiled noir.

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Recensione:

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. (George Pelecanos)

Sacred, ferocious, and businesslike, Adelstein describes the Japanese mafia like nobody else. (Roberto Saviano, author of Gomorrah.)

Gripping and absorbing ... A terrifying, deeply moral story that you cannot put down. (Misha Glenny, author of McMafia.)

Hugely fascinating... utterly authentic. (Literary Review)

Fascinating (Books Quarterly)

thrilling (Financial Times)

Hardcore (Jewish Chronicle)

Gripping. (Catholic Herald)

Fascinating. (James Cracknell, Daily Express)

Descrizione del libro:

A page turning insider's account of reporting on crime in Japan. Does for Tokyo what Homicide did for Baltimore.

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• Editore: Corsair
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1849014647
• ISBN 13: 9781849014649
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 400