真夜中の喝采～きんぴか（３）～: 3

きんぴか #3

by Jirō Asada

草壁明夫が殺された。広橋をスケープゴートにした大物政治家・山内龍三の悪行を報道した、あの気鋭のジャーナリストが……。訃報を耳にした広橋は凍りつき、草壁に伝え忘れたセリフを口にするために立ち上がる。一方、ピスケンと軍曹は、ヤクザと悪徳政治家が自己弁護と保身に走るなか、正義の暴走を敢行する。三悪漢の破天荒な物語、ひとまず完結！

249 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 1, 1999

About the author

Jirō Asada (浅田 次郎, born December 13, 1951 in Tokyo) is the pen name of Kōjirō Iwato (岩戸 康次郎), a Japanese writer.

Inspired by Yukio Mishima, who tried to stage a coup d'état among Japan Self-Defense Forces then committed suicide after the coup was failed, Asada enlisted in the SDF after finishing his studies. He changed jobs many times while endeavoring to find writing opportunities, submitting his works to literary competitions.

In 1991, his novel Torarete tamaruka! (とられてたまるか!) started his literary career. After writing several picaresque novels, his novel Metro ni notte (地下鉄に乗って) was awarded the Eiji Yoshikawa Prize for New Writers and made into a 2006 film; a short story collection The Stationmaster and other stories (Poppoya (鉄道員)) was also awarded the Naoki Prize.

He writes not only standard fiction and picaresque novels, but also writes historical and Chinese historical novels such as The Firmament of the Pleiades (Sōkyū no subaru, 蒼穹の昴).

Reviews

[Taka · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'll miss them!

I'll sorely miss all the characters in this series. Asada Jiro's stories are laugh-out-loud hilarious and heart-warming. I couldn't stop reading them.

Awesome--