The Informer
Akimitsu Takagi
ISBN: 9781569472439
Published: July, 2003
Pricing
Paperback $15.00
Description
When he loses his job as a trader after the stock market crashes, Shigeo Segawa is offered lucrative work as an industrial spy. How could he say no? He is soon assigned to seduce an ex-girlfriend and steal an important formula from her husband, who runs a large chemical company. But when the husband is found murdered, Segawa becomes the p...
When he loses his job as a trader after the stock market crashes, Shigeo Segawa is offered lucrative work as an industrial spy. How could he say no? He is soon assigned to seduce an ex-girlfriend and steal an important formula from her husband, who runs a large chemical company. But when the husband is found murdered, Segawa becomes the prime suspect.
Media
“. . . Based on actual events, The Informer was a bestseller when originally published in Japan.”
─The Wall Street Journal
“There are many webs and one or more deadly spiders spinning them in this intricate tale of deceit and murder from the late Japanese master.”
─Publishers Weekly
“Achieves some of the brilliantly brutal effect of a more polite David Mamet.”