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The Hunter
A Detective Takako Otomichi Mystery
Asa Nonami
Translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter
Hardcover 272 pages
152 x 226mm 590g
ISBN : 978-4-7700-3025-2 / 4-7700-3025-8
Publish : Feb, 2007
Price : $24.95 |
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[ About the Book ]
When Takako Otomichi Chooses the career of detective, her family disapproves and her male colleagues refuse to take her seriously, especially hard-bitten old gumshoe Sergeant Tamotsu Takizawa, her reluctant partner on the hunt for a mysterious murderer whose grisly trademark is to rip out the throat of his victims.
The pair must put their differences aside as their search for the killer takes them into Tokyo's seedy underworld of drugs, nightclubs, and teenage prostitution, and to the terrifying realization that the murderer is some kind of wild animal on the loose in the city streets. Before long, Takako is hot on the trail of her dangerous yet highly intelligent prey in a hair-raising journey that will bring her face-to-face with the killer and face-to-face with herself.
The Hunter is a gripping mystery thriller that also delves deeply into the hearts and minds of its protagonists to create complex portraits of ordinary people struggling to balance the demands of work, family, and personal relationships.
A BRUTAL TRAINED KILLER stalks the winter streets of Tokyo. But this is no ordinary murderer.
A TOUGH, STREETWISE DETECTIVE is assigned to track down the perpetrator of a series of gruesome slayings. But this is no ordinary cop.
THE ODDS ARE STACKED against female biker cop-turned-detective Takako Otomichi who has to battle against the demands of family and the disdain of male colleagues before she can come face-to-face with her prey . . .
Reviews
"Readers looking for a tough new heroine will be drawn to detective Takako Otomichi, a former motorcycle cop, who solves cases while struggling with family problems and her surly partner."
—USA Today
"The first English translation of the excellent mystery series... with a breathtaking pursuit at the climax that is vigorously suspenseful."
—Cleveland Plain Dealer
"[An] engaging, complex police procedural.... all [readers] will hope to see more of the prolific Nonami's work made available in the U.S."
—Publishers Weekly
"Nonami is a creative and visionary writer, ...[with] a thrilling mystery style."
—Library Journal
"An atmospheric mystery with plenty of noir shadings and more than a hint of the occult, this is a razor-sharp crime novel that will leave readers hungry for more Nonami."
—Booklist
"The Hunter is a first-rate page-turner, sure to have readers queuing up for a sequel."
—BookPage
"Asa Nonami's work blends classic hard-boiled noir mystery with The Hound of the Baskervilles and CHiPs."
—Giant Robot
"A multi-layered and involving story.... This is but one of Nonami's fifty books, prize winners among them, but I am betting it won't be the last one translated for Western readers. Full marks also go to translator Juliet Winters Carpenter who has walked the shaky line between translation and cross-cultural interpretation with a firm foot."
—New Mystery Reader
"A gripping police procedural that stands out for its engaging protagonist. ...As it travels deep into a Tokyo underworld of drugs and prostitution, the novel becomes a fascinating look inside Japan's police culture and the mind of one woman who finds inner strength and redemption in seedy places."
—Time Out New York
"A tough, original, exciting, and moving story with a fascinating female police officer at its center."
—Chicago Tribune
"Kodansha continues to deliver the best of Japanese crime fiction in excellent translations."
—Toronto Globe & Mail
"In her absorbing The Hunter, Asa Nonami springs her biggest shock at the start."
—Washington Post Book World
"In addition to writing first-rate action scenes, Nonami creates fully developed characters."
—Deadly Pleasures
"The Hunter stars Nonami's enthralling hero, detective Takako Otomichi, who provides a rare look into the closed, masculine world of the Japanese police."
—Bookslut.com
"A nail-biting tale."
—OverMyDeadBody.com
"A fascinating crime novel."
—The Yuuyake Shimbun
About the Authors
ASA NONAMI was born in Tokyo in 1960, and won the First Japanese Mystery and Suspense Award with her debut novel A Happy Breakfast in 1988. The Hunter was awarded the prestigious Naoki prize in 1996, and has been translated into Chinese and Korean. Nonami is best known for mystery and suspense, although she writes in various genres and has around fifty works published.
Award-winning translator JULIET WINTERS CARPENTER has rendered into English a wide array of modern fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by authors such as Kobo Abe, Ryotaro Shiba, and Machi Tawara. A professor at Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts in Kyoto, Carpenter lives in Ikoma, Nara Prefecture.
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