The Thief Audiobook

Quotes

• “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, crumbling, graffiti-scarred Tokyo—and the desire to understand the mysterious thief.”

  — Booklist

• “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 sitting.”

  — Richmond Times-Dispatch

• “His grasp of the seamy underbelly of the city is why Nakamura is one of the most award-winning young guns of Japanese hard-boiled detective writing.”

  — Daily Beast

• “I was deeply impressed with The Thief. It is fresh.”

  — Kenzaburō Ōe, Nobel Prize–winning author

• “Fast-paced, elegantly written, and rife with the symbols of inevitability.”

  — ForeWord

• “More than a crime novel, The Thief is a narrative that delves deep into the meaning of theft and the nature of justice…Japanese crime fiction has a new star.”

  — Out of the Gutter

• “The drily philosophical tone and the noir atmosphere combine perfectly, providing a rapid and enjoyable ‘read’ that is nonetheless cool and distant, provoking the reader to think about (as much as experience) the tale.”

  — International Noir Fiction

• “Compelling…Nakamura’s memorable antihero, at once as believably efficient as Donald Westlake’s Parker and as disaffected as a Camus protagonist, will impress genre and literary readers alike.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “Disguised as fast-paced, shock-fueled crime fiction, The Thief resonates even more as a treatise on contemporary disconnect and paralyzing isolation.”

  — Library Journal