From the creator of the bestseller “Killer Train.”
A dynamic, masterfully constructed thriller in the spirit of “Kill Bill.”
The 1980s. Naoto Kitayama, an employee of a pharmaceutical company, dreams of a quiet, measured life, but his family is struck by mysterious deaths one after another. Naoto’s wife, Miyako, is convinced that this is not an accident, but a chain of cold-bloodedly organized murders. When an unknown assailant tries to kill her as well, Miyako is forced to lift the veil over her own past. The former intelligence officer begins an investigation that quickly goes beyond the bounds of a family tragedy.
The 2030s. Half a century later, a chance meeting on a shinkansen pulls the courier Naomasu Mito into a deadly story. An unusual letter, the mysterious organization “Greatserry,” vanishing witnesses, and a man who seems to know everything about Mito force him to continue the search that Miyako started many years ago. And the closer he gets to the truth, the clearer it becomes: cases that had seemed closed were only a link in a meticulously calculated scheme—while the real killer had remained in the shadows all along.