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Despite being regularly underwhelmed by Japanese crime fiction, I continue to pick it up in the hopes of finding a writer or story that clicks. Unfortunately, this book proved to be another dud. The story follows a highly talented pickpocket who meets up with an old friend/criminal and gets sucked into a scheme masterminded by a mysterious man. He is made the proverbial offer he can't refuse -- a series of increasingly difficult thefts that he must complete or he will be killed. This could theor
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Two for one in this short novel Great advice in how to be a successful pickpocket while giving insight into the Japanese way of doing things.
A dark existential crime novel from Japan that sneaks in and picks your reading pocket.
Dec 18, 2012
Devin
marked it as to-read
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