Rasputin the Patriot

The Kafkaesque autobiography of a diplomat who compares himself to Grigori Rasputin
and what happens after he gets caught up in a political purge during the early 2000s.
A legal thriller with a dash of geopolitics.

Based on "Kokka no Wana (Trap of the State)", the autobiography of ex-diplomat and political writer Sato Masaru.