Abstract

A biological weapon was stolen!
What is the fate of the father and son who went to recover it?

An extremely powerful biological weapon, K-55, has been stolen from a research institute.
The thief threatens to pay 300 million yen if he wants to know where it is hidden, but dies in an accident before he can negotiate.
The only clue left behind is an image of a teddy bear taken at what appears to be a ski resort.
Kuribayashi, a researcher ordered to retrieve the biological weapon, heads for a certain ski resort with his son, but they are beset with difficulties one after another.

Author’s Information

Born in Osaka Prefecture in 1958.
Debuted in 1985 by winning the 31st Edogawa Rampo Prize with "Hokago (After School)".

Received the 52nd Japan Mystery Writers Association Award in 1999 for "Himitsu (Secret)", the 134th Naoki Prize and the 6th Honkaku Mystery Grand Prize in 2006 for "The Devotion of Suspect X," the 7th Chuo Koron Literary Prize in 2012 for "The Miracles of the Namiya General Store," the 26th Shibata Renzaburo Award in 2013 for "Mugenbana (Dreamy Flowers", and the 48th Yoshikawa Eiji Literary Prize in 2014 for "The Final Curtain". Also has numerous other awards.

Passionate about snowboarding, with works set on the slopes like "Silver Jack (Silver Hijack)", "Shippu Rondo (Gale Rondo)", "Koi no Gondola (Love Gondola)" and "Setsuen Chase (Chase in the Snow)".

Authored many books including "The Camphor Tree’s Guard (Kusunoki no Bannin)", "Majo to sugoshita Shichinichikann (Seven Days Spent with a Witch)", "Anata ga dareka wo koroshita (You Killed Someone)" and "Black Showman to kakuseisuru onnatachi (The Awakening Women with the Black Showman)".