It's a battle between justice and power, one prosecutor against an entire corrupt system. When darkness covers everything, only the truth is the glimmer of light that pierces the dark night.
Reader comments
What impressed me most about this novel was its overwhelming sense of reality. From the first page when the director of the Finance Bureau falls late at night, the author uses an almost line drawing technique to drag readers into a world that is both familiar and unfamiliar to us - familiar because we see the headline "So-and-so official fell from office" in the news every day; unfamiliar because we have never actually walked into those offices, those conference rooms, and those government buildings with lights on late at night.
What impressed me most about this novel was its overwhelming sense of reality. From the first page when the director of the Finance Bureau falls late at night, the author uses an almost line drawing technique to drag readers into a world that is both familiar and unfamiliar to us - familiar because we see the headline "So-and-so official fell from office" in the news every day; unfamiliar because we have never actually walked into those offices, those conference rooms, and those government buildings with lights on late at night.