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悪党
探偵事務所で働いている佐伯修一は、老夫婦から「息子を殺し、少年院を出て社会復帰した男を追跡調査してほしい」という依頼を受ける。依頼に後ろ向きだった佐伯だが、所長の木暮の命令で調査を開始する。実は佐伯も姉を殺された犯罪被害者遺族だった。その後、「犯罪加害者の追跡調査」を幾つも手がけることに。加害者と被害者遺族に対面する中で、佐伯は姉を殺した犯人を追うことを決意し……。衝撃と感動の社会派ミステリ。
299 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 31, 2009
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October 10, 2017
Wicked Gang revolves around a narrator whose older sister was raped and murdered from years ago. A decade after his sister's murder, the young man now works for a small private eye company and his boss came up with the idea of helping victims of violent crime (or the victims' own families) to track down the whereabouts of the released-criminals.
Reluctant to take these cases, our narrator encounters family members of the victims: some of the victims were killed, some raped, some tricked out of their entire fortune, in one case a man was left by his irresponsible mother for death years ago and he wants to know where she is now; and the narrator also tracks down the criminals who had wronged those victims.
As the narrator works on his cases one by one, he comes to discover more clues about his sister's murderers (who had long been released from prison after serving no more than 10 years of jail time due to their young age). Burnt with a strong desire for revenge, what action will the young man take in the end?
The idea of the victims' families tracking down former criminals is an intriguing one. Once again Gaku Yakumaru brings up the questions of guilt, crime and punishment, redemption and forgiveness, good and evil through his writing, and I like how Mr. Yakumaru never gives you a simple black and white answer. In his stories, the difference between good and evil, guilty or not guilty is always shrouded with a lot of grey.
It is a thoughtful, fast paced and entertaining novel with a surprising ending at the very end. I strongly recommend you to read it.
Reluctant to take these cases, our narrator encounters family members of the victims: some of the victims were killed, some raped, some tricked out of their entire fortune, in one case a man was left by his irresponsible mother for death years ago and he wants to know where she is now; and the narrator also tracks down the criminals who had wronged those victims.
As the narrator works on his cases one by one, he comes to discover more clues about his sister's murderers (who had long been released from prison after serving no more than 10 years of jail time due to their young age). Burnt with a strong desire for revenge, what action will the young man take in the end?
The idea of the victims' families tracking down former criminals is an intriguing one. Once again Gaku Yakumaru brings up the questions of guilt, crime and punishment, redemption and forgiveness, good and evil through his writing, and I like how Mr. Yakumaru never gives you a simple black and white answer. In his stories, the difference between good and evil, guilty or not guilty is always shrouded with a lot of grey.
It is a thoughtful, fast paced and entertaining novel with a surprising ending at the very end. I strongly recommend you to read it.
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