Yokoyama, Hideo - 'Six Four' (Signed First UK edition 2016)

Signed first UK edition. Signed by author and translator on a special tipped-in page for a limited number of books. This one is book no. 122 of overall 500. Quercus Publishing Ltd. London 2016. No jacket as published. With the original vertical wraparound band.

Hideo Yokoyama, born in Tokyo in 1957, worked as an investigative journalist and is regarded as the Japanese Stieg Larsson. He has been honoured with numerous awards and wrote ‘64’ for ten years.  ‘64’ reached number one on the Japanese bestseller list and was honoured as the best Japanese crime novel of 2013. Subsequently, ‘64’ also became a sensation in the UK and the USA.

Content:

In January 1989, a seven-year-old girl is kidnapped in Tokyo. For five long days, the desperate parents try everything to fulfil the kidnapper's demands. But all their efforts are in vain. The kidnapper escapes unrecognised with the ransom money, and shortly afterwards the girl's body is found. The police investigation comes to nothing. The case goes down in Japan's criminal history as an unsolved drama under file number 64. Fourteen years later, the daughter of Yoshinobu Mikami, the press officer of a small police station, disappears. Shortly afterwards, Mikami, himself a prisoner of an overpowering administrative apparatus, comes across a secret memo on Case 64. Driven by a dark premonition, he begins to investigate on his own - and opens a door that would have been better left closed forever.

Book condition is as new and unread. Vertical wraparound band has one miniscule tear at the bottom edge.

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