The Thief
- Author Fuminori Nakamura
- Narrator Charlie Thurston
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Run Time 4 hours and 1 minute
- Format Audio
- Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction.
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What to expect
The Thief is a seasoned pickpocket. Anonymous in his tailored suit, he weaves in and out of Tokyo crowds, stealing wallets from strangers so smoothly sometimes he doesn’t even remember the snatch. Most people are just a blur to him, nameless faces from whom he chooses his victims. He has no family, no friends, no connections … but he does have a past, which finally catches up with him when Ishikawa, his first partner, reappears in his life, and offers him a job he can’t refuse. It’s an easy job: tie up an old rich man, steal the contents of the safe. No one gets hurt. Only the day after the job does he learn that the old man was a prominent politician, and that he was brutally killed after the robbery. And now the thief is caught in a tangle even he might not be able to escape.
Critics Review
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“A minimalist sliver of Tokyo noir…An intelligent, compelling, and surprisingly moving tale, and highly recommended.”
The Guardian (London) -
“Strangely, compulsively readable for its portrait of a dark,
Booklist
crumbling, graffiti-scarred Tokyo—and the desire to understand the mysterious
thief.” -
“More Conrad than Connelly…A breath of fresh air for readers looking for something beyond the procedural.”
Time Out Chicago -
“I defy you not to finish the book in a single
Richmond Times-Dispatch
sitting.” -
“We get all the way to page 53 of…before we learn the name of its protagonist narrator…By then a reader may feel no special need to know what this nervy fellow is called, so well has Mr. Nakamura caused us to view the world through the thief’s hypersensitive mind.”
Wall Street Journal -
“His grasp of the seamy underbelly of the city
Daily Beast
is why Nakamura is one of the most award-winning young guns of Japanese
hard-boiled detective writing.”
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