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A review by spyder_trauma_rose
Tokyo Vice: a Western reporter on the police beat in Japan by Jake Adelstein
5.0
Good book. Probably one of the best entries in Neo-Noir in the last two decades, despite being non-fiction.
If you have any sort of interest in Japan as a foreigner, eventually this book is going to be recommended to you. It's decent for that, but as it follows someone entrenched in crime and vice it's scattershot, often pulling random information in. It's less of a straight line in terms of a narrative and more of a scrap book, seemingly pulled from his personal diaries with the opening chapter only followed up on in the last quarter of the book.
The early chapters are at times self indulgent and definitely cocky but as time passes the mistakes and stress begin to pile up. It nominally ends on a victory that is so marred by grief it might as well not be a win at all.
If you have any sort of interest in Japan as a foreigner, eventually this book is going to be recommended to you. It's decent for that, but as it follows someone entrenched in crime and vice it's scattershot, often pulling random information in. It's less of a straight line in terms of a narrative and more of a scrap book, seemingly pulled from his personal diaries with the opening chapter only followed up on in the last quarter of the book.
The early chapters are at times self indulgent and definitely cocky but as time passes the mistakes and stress begin to pile up. It nominally ends on a victory that is so marred by grief it might as well not be a win at all.