Abstract

A high school girl living in Shirokane, Tokyo was kidnapped. The ransom is 50 million yen.
The culprit is named as the ""Game Master"" who kidnapped a junior high school girl four years ago. Shingo Uehara, a former detective of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, is appointed as the negotiator.
In order to fulfill the Game Master's mission, Uehara travels all over Tokyo, including Ikebukuro, Toyosu, and Oshiage...

Author’s Information

Born in 1978 in Okinawa, Japan. Lives and works in Tokyo. Graduated from The Jikei University School of Medicine and a board-certified physician of the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine.
In 2011, won the 4th Shimada Shoji's Bara no Machi Fukuyama Mystery Literature Newcomer Award for "Raison d'etre"; in 2012, made his debut with "Who is the Blade for" (published in 2007 as "Raison d'etre"); in 2003, "Masked Ward" won the Keibundo Grand Prize. Nominated for the Honya Taisho Award five times for his novels "Embracing Her Collapsing Brain", "Hitotsumugi no Te", "Mugen no i (1 & 2)", "Murder in the Glass Tower", and "Houkago Mystery Club 1: Goldfish Swimming Pool Incident".
His signature work, the "Takao Ameku" series, has garnered overwhelming support from a wide range of generations. He has other many books, including "How to Keep a Gentle Shinigami", "Jikan Fuu", "Real Face", "Kikai-jikake no Taiyo", "Inori no Karte", and "Tonari no Nurse Aide".
He is one of the most popular mystery writers today.