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nitroglycerin 's review for:
Six Four
by Hideo Yokoyama
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
636 pages of Japanese police politics was never so enjoyable.
While I’ve marked the pace as slow, it’s mainly because I’m not a good judge of pace, or because I haven’t read anything fast paced in such a long time I’ve lost the ability to compare.
Mikami is the Director of media relations. He finds himself stuck in the middle of a battle between Criminal Investigations and Administrative Affairs, while an old kidnapping case (named Six-Four) is being re-examined, a new kidnapping case opens up, and his own teenage daughter has ran away. Mikami used to be a detective with Criminal Investigations, and even though he is now placed in Admin, the detective in him can tell there’s something amiss going on and he can’t help but figure it out. All the while, the local press is getting riled up and making his day job difficult.
For such a long book, where there is little action (the last it’s pretty intense for about 100 pages towards the end), I had to know what was going on. The story is crafted in a way that you want to understand what the fudge everyone is up to. Why is there another detective seemingly asking the same questions as Mikami? Why does the head of the NPA suddenly want to come visit? What is the connection to Six-Four? Where is his daughter?
The author manages to tie up almost everything very well at the end. He also provided a very handy guide at the front of the structure of the departments and the names of the people in each position. By the end I didn’t need to use it so much though, but it certainly helped in the beginning.
Not quite a 4 star for me though so I’m going with a 3.75
While I’ve marked the pace as slow, it’s mainly because I’m not a good judge of pace, or because I haven’t read anything fast paced in such a long time I’ve lost the ability to compare.
Mikami is the Director of media relations. He finds himself stuck in the middle of a battle between Criminal Investigations and Administrative Affairs, while an old kidnapping case (named Six-Four) is being re-examined, a new kidnapping case opens up, and his own teenage daughter has ran away. Mikami used to be a detective with Criminal Investigations, and even though he is now placed in Admin, the detective in him can tell there’s something amiss going on and he can’t help but figure it out. All the while, the local press is getting riled up and making his day job difficult.
For such a long book, where there is little action (the last it’s pretty intense for about 100 pages towards the end), I had to know what was going on. The story is crafted in a way that you want to understand what the fudge everyone is up to. Why is there another detective seemingly asking the same questions as Mikami? Why does the head of the NPA suddenly want to come visit? What is the connection to Six-Four? Where is his daughter?
The author manages to tie up almost everything very well at the end. He also provided a very handy guide at the front of the structure of the departments and the names of the people in each position. By the end I didn’t need to use it so much though, but it certainly helped in the beginning.
Not quite a 4 star for me though so I’m going with a 3.75