A review by liberrydude
The Informer by Akimitsu Takagi, Sadako Mizuguchi

4.0

Another timeless page turning gem from Takagi. Takagi reminds me of Doyle but he's able to stimulate the reader without resort to a series built around a common character. This starts out a little slow with a down on his luck stockbroker being turned onto a job too good to be true. You know it's a set-up but you have no idea where you are headed. This was written in the 1960's but it could be out of today's pages. Deceit, adultery, greed, and manipulation all under the guise of industrial espionage quickly escalate. It reads like a Shakespearean tragedy with a desperate man who has lost his moral compass. But perhaps the informer is the one who has lost the moral compass. There's also an element of the British romantic pursuit of a love lost as well as the American pursuit of happiness (at any cost).