A review by ursineultra
Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan by Jake Adelstein

1.0

Excruciatingly poorly written, and hard to tell how much is true and how much is the wank fantasy of the self-obsessed author. Adelstein thinks he's some James bond/batman hybrid but his exploits seem as believable as a 12 year old's fan fiction. Everyone underestimates him, he's always got a (incredibly clunky) comeback, every conversation ends with a compliment and women can't stop sleeping with him. So embarrassing I was actually cringing reading it.

Also, when I thought my eyes couldn't roll any further back in my head I come on here and find that not only did the guy review his own book, he also gave it five stars, reducing it to four only because that's 'more Japanese'. I threw up in my mouth a little at this point.

(One star because I learnt some stuff about Japanese culture I didn't know.)