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tomleetang 's review for:
Six Four
by Hideo Yokoyama
The bureaucracy of the police force is an odd subject for a 'crime phenomenon', and by the end I was pretty exhausted by it.
The premise was intriguing: hero works in the police media department, handling the press. His daughter is missing and it could be tied up with a 15-year-old case of abduction, murder and blackmail known in the force as Six Four, the name marking the case as occurring in the final year of the previous emperor. Okay, sounds interesting....
And occasionally there is some interesting Japanese social commentary, but overall I was thoroughly bored. Perhaps that's partly the point - that normal detective investigations aren't all adrenaline and shoot outs. But surely in place of the conventional action and excitement there should be something else to hold the reader's attention? For me, there just wasn't.
The premise was intriguing: hero works in the police media department, handling the press. His daughter is missing and it could be tied up with a 15-year-old case of abduction, murder and blackmail known in the force as Six Four, the name marking the case as occurring in the final year of the previous emperor. Okay, sounds interesting....
And occasionally there is some interesting Japanese social commentary, but overall I was thoroughly bored. Perhaps that's partly the point - that normal detective investigations aren't all adrenaline and shoot outs. But surely in place of the conventional action and excitement there should be something else to hold the reader's attention? For me, there just wasn't.