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第151回直木賞受賞！ 映画製作への出資金を持ち逃げされたヤクザの桑原と建設コンサルタントの二宮は、資金回収のため、関西とマカオを奔走する。巨額の資金をめぐる争いはやがて組同士のトラブルに発展し、桑原にも絶体絶命の危機が！ エンターテインメント小説の最高峰!!
469 pages, Tankobon Hardcover
First published January 1, 2014
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February 13, 2019
In this tour-de-force picaresque novel, yakuza members and groups vie fiercely among themselves as they seek to recover a large pot of money made off with by a swindler.
Keisuke Ninomiya, 39, is a construction consultant. Because his father was an executive in the Nichōkai yakuza family, he has had associations with yakuza from childhood, and his primary business centers on using those connections to help advance construction and demolition jobs in which yakuza interests are involved. In the course of this work, he has gotten to know Yasuhiko Kuwahara, 41, one of the Nichōkai’s current executives. Ninomiya regards the hotheaded, quick-to-fight Kuwahara, who keeps saddling him with troublesome tasks, as something of a pest and would like to be rid of him, but besides the fact that they actually get on remarkably well, he depends on the man’s money, so he can’t say no to him. Amid a police crackdown that’s putting the crimp on yakuza sources of income and creating economic hardships for them, Ninomiya and Kuwahara become embroiled in a new round of troubles.
A movie producer named Koshimizu comes to Nichōkai seeking backing for a movie, then puts on a vanishing act with his lover and a total of 300 million yen. The Nichōkai’s number two, Shimada, has invested 13.5 million; Kuwahara, 1.5 million. The enraged Kuwahara calls on Ninomiya to help him track Koshimizu down, but along the way he gets into a fight with two young yakuza; though he wins the fight, the two turn out to be members of the Isei-gumi family, which belongs to the same large syndicate as the Nichōkai but at a far higher rank. Kuwahara subsequently gets into a fight with two other members of the Isei-gumi, and this time ends up with a serious stab wound in his chest, which damages his lung. Still nursing this wound and pursued by the Isei-gumi, Kuwahara and Ninomiya take their search for Koshimizu to a casino in Macau, where they succeed in apprehending the fraudster.
Even after putting together the money he owes to the syndicate, Kuwahara remains in an awkward position. If he is expelled by the Nichōkai, he will lose his protection and promptly be killed by the Isei-gumi. In the course of time it comes to light that a power struggle has been going on within Isei-gumi, and that Koshimizu had been put up to his financial swindle by one of the warring factions.
Though simple in premise, this exemplar of the hard-boiled genre is filled with twists and turns and high-tension face-offs between yakuza. It is the fifth installment in a series of novels featuring the Ninomiya-Kuwahara pair, which began with Yakubyōgami (The Pest) in 1997.
Keisuke Ninomiya, 39, is a construction consultant. Because his father was an executive in the Nichōkai yakuza family, he has had associations with yakuza from childhood, and his primary business centers on using those connections to help advance construction and demolition jobs in which yakuza interests are involved. In the course of this work, he has gotten to know Yasuhiko Kuwahara, 41, one of the Nichōkai’s current executives. Ninomiya regards the hotheaded, quick-to-fight Kuwahara, who keeps saddling him with troublesome tasks, as something of a pest and would like to be rid of him, but besides the fact that they actually get on remarkably well, he depends on the man’s money, so he can’t say no to him. Amid a police crackdown that’s putting the crimp on yakuza sources of income and creating economic hardships for them, Ninomiya and Kuwahara become embroiled in a new round of troubles.
A movie producer named Koshimizu comes to Nichōkai seeking backing for a movie, then puts on a vanishing act with his lover and a total of 300 million yen. The Nichōkai’s number two, Shimada, has invested 13.5 million; Kuwahara, 1.5 million. The enraged Kuwahara calls on Ninomiya to help him track Koshimizu down, but along the way he gets into a fight with two young yakuza; though he wins the fight, the two turn out to be members of the Isei-gumi family, which belongs to the same large syndicate as the Nichōkai but at a far higher rank. Kuwahara subsequently gets into a fight with two other members of the Isei-gumi, and this time ends up with a serious stab wound in his chest, which damages his lung. Still nursing this wound and pursued by the Isei-gumi, Kuwahara and Ninomiya take their search for Koshimizu to a casino in Macau, where they succeed in apprehending the fraudster.
Even after putting together the money he owes to the syndicate, Kuwahara remains in an awkward position. If he is expelled by the Nichōkai, he will lose his protection and promptly be killed by the Isei-gumi. In the course of time it comes to light that a power struggle has been going on within Isei-gumi, and that Koshimizu had been put up to his financial swindle by one of the warring factions.
Though simple in premise, this exemplar of the hard-boiled genre is filled with twists and turns and high-tension face-offs between yakuza. It is the fifth installment in a series of novels featuring the Ninomiya-Kuwahara pair, which began with Yakubyōgami (The Pest) in 1997.
July 22, 2018
突破一開始對黑道作風－把圍事、毒品、詐騙當作營生工具，一言不合就動手，花錢大手大腳，道德感薄弱...的心理障礙之後，的確是個很精采的故事。兩個主角中桑原能打又有腦袋，只是長了個凶神惡煞的臉，兩人追查詐騙師的下落期間，每次需要騙什麼資訊、假冒別人領錢都是叫二宮出馬，二宮心理吐槽著然而不敢反抗武力值超高的桑原。桑原大約是把二宮當成個非常好用的手下，二宮完全沒意識到自己舌燦蓮花的技能是桑原總是指使他的原因啊! 也許有一點是看在二宮老爸的面上，多少提攜他一些吧。這本書沒有真的正義，被黑道稱為「詐騙師」的小清水其實何其無辜，他只是想拍電影而已呀! 無恥的是黑道殺雞還要剝皮剉骨的手段。
本書的日劇版和電影版都相當有人氣，這是作者「瘟神」系列中得直木賞的一本，目前只有這本和下一本「喧嘩」的翻譯本，所以說前面幾本快出啊，混蛋!
本書的日劇版和電影版都相當有人氣，這是作者「瘟神」系列中得直木賞的一本，目前只有這本和下一本「喧嘩」的翻譯本，所以說前面幾本快出啊，混蛋!
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