深夜的喝采

きんぴか #3

by Jirō Asada, 淺田次郎, 高詹燦 (Translator)

草壁明夫遭人暗殺。
這名充滿幹勁的媒體人，曾揭發那位讓廣橋當代罪羔羊的政治家山內龍造的醜聞，報導他的惡行。廣橋聽聞噩耗後，全身為之一僵，為了說出他當初忘了提醒草壁的話，他決定展開行動。

另一方面，當黑心政治家與黑道人物忙著保身和替自己辯護時，軍曹與槍健也勇敢地為正義挺身而出。

三名惡漢破天荒的故事，暫且就此完結！

320 pages, Paperback

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--