“Plodding bureaucratic procedurals” – Prefecture D by Hideo Yokoyama

"Maybe somewhere a market exists for plodding bureaucratic procedurals where middle-managers delegate investigations to their subordinates. But I’d rather feed my noir jones with hard-boiled novels and bend an elbow with crusty, hard-drinking, iconoclastic rule-bending private eyes. Hey, look, Jim Thompson is beckoning from the bar, I better grab the last stool before Charley Willeford’s plops his big ass on it. . ." - Chris Oleson reviews Prefecture D by Hideo Yokoyama

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