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Shrike the Killer #2
百舌の叫ぶ夜
【第61回毎日芸術賞受賞作】能登半島の突端にある孤狼岬で発見された記憶喪失の男は、妹と名乗る女によって兄の新谷和彦であると確認された。東京新宿では過激派集団による爆弾事件が発生、倉木尚武警部の妻が巻きぞえとなり死亡。そして豊明興業のテロリストと思われる新谷を尾行していた明星美希部長刑事。錯綜した人間関係の中で巻き起こる男たちの宿命の対決。その背後に隠された恐るべき陰謀。迫真のサスペンス長編小説。
- GenresFiction
412 pages, Paperback
First published July 20, 1990
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Go Osaka
25 books4 followersThe 11th president of the Mystery Writers of Japan (2001-2005)
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May 1, 2021
A hard boiled/thriller where the explosion of a bomb in Tokyo sends a wave of rippling effects through the lives of its many characters, "百舌の叫ぶ夜" is a very entertaining read, with only one or two issues (one, regarding one the main characters, a product of its era, maybe, but still reinforcing some negative stereotypes) that stop it from being something special.
The story has two main storylines: the police investigation around the explosion, where the wife of a policeman died (one of those cool as a cucumber types cops) and the wow-I-lost-my-memory-how-original man who regents a club with ties to the yakuza, a yakuza that is trying to kill him because of some photos. Both of them are really entertaining, and dialogues, action, cool situations happen all the time, with the storylines crisscrossing each other to develop a quite good (not original, though) plot.
However there are two little points that can be annoying to the reader. First, the time jumps. The story goes back and forward with little warning and sometimes it takes a page or two to know where you are in the overall timeline. The second regards the man-without-memory's sister, who is... well, one of those characters whose depiction can be seen as a problematic one of a collective (also, some vocabulary could be seen as derogatory for nowadays standards).
The best: it is a thrilling thriller (cough cough)
The worst: some decisions around one of the main characters
Alternatives: maybe Nishimura, Tetsuya Honda or Hideo Yokoyama
6.5/10
(Japanese; original)
The story has two main storylines: the police investigation around the explosion, where the wife of a policeman died (one of those cool as a cucumber types cops) and the wow-I-lost-my-memory-how-original man who regents a club with ties to the yakuza, a yakuza that is trying to kill him because of some photos. Both of them are really entertaining, and dialogues, action, cool situations happen all the time, with the storylines crisscrossing each other to develop a quite good (not original, though) plot.
However there are two little points that can be annoying to the reader. First, the time jumps. The story goes back and forward with little warning and sometimes it takes a page or two to know where you are in the overall timeline. The second regards the man-without-memory's sister, who is... well, one of those characters whose depiction can be seen as a problematic one of a collective (also, some vocabulary could be seen as derogatory for nowadays standards).
The best: it is a thrilling thriller (cough cough)
The worst: some decisions around one of the main characters
Alternatives: maybe Nishimura, Tetsuya Honda or Hideo Yokoyama
6.5/10
(Japanese; original)
November 24, 2025
故事一開始就能引人入勝；然後，隨著主角鍥而不捨的追查，情節層次展開，陰謀不斷升高。但弔詭的是，資訊逐漸擴充、線索逐漸明朗的結果，是主角異常身世的揭露與親密伴侶的背叛。從起點回到起點，形成完美的回歸式探索。過程中，情節推演合理，主角形象突出，遭遇出人意表。似乎各方面都達到了一定的水平，很有「經典」探案的味道。唯一不滿的是，作者在敘事時間上的不規範。忽正、忽倒，沒有任何說明。這一節甲君明明死了，下一節甲君又跳出來說話。這或許是作者的一種實驗性手法吧。但在閱讀經驗上，除了突增無厘頭的矛盾外，我看不出這種手法在情節發展上或吸引讀者上，有任何的優勢。
February 13, 2019
故事流暢，懸崖感豐富，戲劇效果也不錯，但有可能是因為劇情設定本來就比較複雜，最後顯得冗長拖戲。百舌為名的小說，但倉木似乎更吸睛。
February 13, 2019
The film is based on this novel.
Inspector Kukaki is a good-looking young detective driven to drink and demotivated after the death of his wife and daughter. As luck would have it, he’s in the vicinity when a drugged terrorist punk and his lethal gang kidnap Elena, a 16-year-old autistic girl, as she is on her way to her embassy with her mother. This occurs shortly after the scary punk has terrorized an entire office building, shooting workers and blowing things up, before the gang makes its escape on jet belts.
Ex-cop Ohsugi who has resigned from the force to become a bumbling private eye, tries to hide Elena from her pursuers, but his own daughter gets kidnapped in the process. So does the smart, beautiful young police chief Higashi who was worried about Inspector Kukaki. Now he is worried about her, so he and Ohsugi fly to a teeming Asian fleshpot where small children are being held hostage by brutes. Organizing the evil operation is the man behind every political conspiracy and economic scandal since WWII, a faceless nemesis alternately known as Mozu or Daruma.
Inspector Kukaki is a good-looking young detective driven to drink and demotivated after the death of his wife and daughter. As luck would have it, he’s in the vicinity when a drugged terrorist punk and his lethal gang kidnap Elena, a 16-year-old autistic girl, as she is on her way to her embassy with her mother. This occurs shortly after the scary punk has terrorized an entire office building, shooting workers and blowing things up, before the gang makes its escape on jet belts.
Ex-cop Ohsugi who has resigned from the force to become a bumbling private eye, tries to hide Elena from her pursuers, but his own daughter gets kidnapped in the process. So does the smart, beautiful young police chief Higashi who was worried about Inspector Kukaki. Now he is worried about her, so he and Ohsugi fly to a teeming Asian fleshpot where small children are being held hostage by brutes. Organizing the evil operation is the man behind every political conspiracy and economic scandal since WWII, a faceless nemesis alternately known as Mozu or Daruma.
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