Crocodile Hunt

Every movement can be a clue.

Hokkaido, Japan.

In the port of Otaru, the mutilated body of sailor Shepelev is found aboard a Russian cruise ship. What could be the motive for murdering an ordinary worker who was just cleaning the decks?

Major of police Minamoto, who arrives at the scene, learns from colleagues that the dead man was a secret informant for Japanese police—passing information about the smuggling of dangerous cargo from Russia to Japan.

Otaru police activate their agents, who, through connections in Khabarovsk, find out that a large international smuggling operation is being planned—and that the killing is only the beginning.

Minamoto boards the tourist ship where the murdered sailor had worked. The criminal is still there…

An unusual literary cooperation between Russians and Japanese in the detective genre.

Books based on real criminal cases from the Hokkaido police. Since 1993, writer Eduard Vlasov has been holding two-week Russian-language courses annually for Hokkaido police officers at the Sapporo Police College.

All the information in these books comes from first-hand sources.