Nezumi No Shima / Original Title: RAT ISLAND (HAYAKAWA POCKET MYSTERY BOOKS 2010)

[Machine Translation] The year is 1995, two years before the return of Hong Kong to China. Two years before the reversion of Hong Kong to China, a New York City police inspector, Karam, is contacted by the Royal Hong Kong Police Department, who is under threat from the mafia leader, Lau. The NYPD wants Callum to go undercover in an effort to eliminate a Chinese crime syndicate that is fleeing Hong Kong in anticipation of the return of Hong Kong. However, the job that Callum is assigned to do after infiltrating the organization is a hell of a task: facilitating human traffickers and dismantling corpses. Meanwhile, Lau, a Hong Kong-based criminal organization, has moved to New York to relocate its base of operations in anticipation of the reversion of Hong Kong to the United States. There he sees Callum... David Peace's highly acclaimed masterpiece crime novel depicts the end of Hong Kong's underworld.

香港返還が2年後に迫った1995年。マフィアの首領ラウに命を狙われる王立香港警察の警部カラムの元に、ニューヨーク市警から連絡が入る。返還を前に香港から逃れてくる中国系犯罪組織撲滅のため、潜入捜査をしてほしいというのだ。だが、組織に潜入したカラムが命じられた仕事は、人身売買の斡旋や死体の解体という地獄だった。一方で返還を見据えた香港のラウは拠点を移すためニューヨークへ進出していた。そこで彼はカラムの姿を見かけ...。香港暗黒街の終焉を描く、デイヴィッド・ピース激賞の傑作犯罪小説。