Abstract

In a minor injury case, a dim-looking middle-aged man was taken to the Nogata Police Station.
The police look down on him as a drunk, but during the interrogation, the man predicts that there will be an explosion in Akihabara at ten o'clock.
Shortly after, an abandoned building in Akihabara exploded. No way, this guy is "real"? The man then says bluntly.
"It's going to explode three times from here, the next an hour later."
Can the police stop the explosion?

Author’s Information

Born in 1981. Currently regarded as one of the most hotly-anticipated Korean-Japanese mystery writers in the Japanese literary awards scene. Making his awards debut with the Edogawa Rampo Prize, a prize that produced literary sensations including Natsuo Kirino and Keigo Higashino, his works have continued to claim award after award. Bakudan (Bomb) was nominated for the Naoki Prize, viewed as one of Japanese literature’s most prestigious awards. His writing is characterized by its ability to conjure cinematic images in the reader’s mind. His works are acclaimed for their depiction of the desires that swirl within the hearts of people living in the modern day, as well as the ambivalence born of morals and ethics that force them to suppress these desires.