パラダイス・ロスト [Paradise Lost]

Joker Game #3

by Kōji Yanagi, 柳 広司

大日本帝国陸軍内にスパイ養成組織“D機関”を作り上げ、異能の精鋭たちを統べる元締め、結城中佐。その正体を暴こうとする男が現れた。英国タイムズ紙極東特派員アーロン・プライス。結城の隠された生い立ちに迫るが…(「追跡」)。ハワイ沖の豪華客船を舞台にした初の中篇「暗号名ケルベロス」を含む全5篇。世界各国、シリーズ最大のスケールで展開する、究極の頭脳戦!「ジョーカー・ゲーム」シリーズ、待望の第3弾。

《収録作品: Included Stories》
『誤算』『失楽園』『追跡』『暗号名ケロベロス 前編』『暗号名ケロベロス 前編』

Genres: Fiction

303 pages, Hardcover

First published March 24, 2012

Reviews

[Mizuki · Rating 4 out of 5]

Unite D III: Paradise Lost by Koji Yanahgi is a decent continuity of his Unite D series, which star a bunch of Japanese spies and their mysterious leader who is only known as Demon King.

Like the prequels before it, the four short stories within Paradise Lost take place during WWII, the war among different spies are still satisfyingly written and entertaining although as a Chinese whose country had once suffered eight long years of bloody battles with the Japanese imperial army during *both* Sino-Japanese War and WWII, unsurprisingly I don't find some of the spies' justification for their missions and action endearing.

But don't worry, it's not a propaganda for Imperialism (the Demon King forbade his spies to kill people or seek a glorified death for themselves and he even thought an all-out war is a stupid idea) the author focuses more on the 'game of wit' aspect of the spies' activities and the internal struggle of reason, loyalty and emotion the spies have gone through when they tried to accomplice their missions.

So I think it's a 3.6 to 4 stars read.

[W.M. · Rating 3 out of 5]

其實是系列，這幾天把三本都看完了。靠杯好看嗚噗。
他本來是我的參考書可是我應該會自己再去收一套，但我看完之後知道為什麼哈尼跟我說最後再看，所以我就後悔了。你這是叫我怎麼回去看勒卡雷…‥不，勒卡雷其實還好，就是硬了點，但我的參考書單上真的有很多無聊的書啊嗚嗚。
好吧那先不管，這一系列真的很好看，短篇小說的集合，他的設定就註定了這就是大秀說故事技巧的小說，雖然也不到炫技的程度……不過這做法真的很有趣，而且柳廣司的確非常會說故事。再然後我本來沒有特別……應該說雖然說我覺得很好看但還算一般程度，可是第三集的最後一篇！最後一篇！
看到倒數幾段時真是有種喜歡到不知如何是好的感覺浮出，太可怕、太可怕了D機關的特務們！

[Vinh Dang · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cũng tương tự như phần 2, truyện sặc mùi chủ nghĩa dân tộc sô vanh

[Trang · Rating 3 out of 5]

3,5/5