The Name of the Game is a Kidnapping
  • Published: 28 February 2017
  • ISBN: 9781942993834
  • Imprint: Vertical Inc
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $49.99

The Name of the Game is a Kidnapping

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Award-winning author Keigo Higashino returns with a modern mystery where a once powerful man is broken, and upon finding an opening makes a big and potentially dangerous game in the name of revenge.

Battle-tested project leader at a PR firm and slippery bachelor, Sakuma sees himself as a player. His smug self-regard doesn't seem entirely unfounded, both in love and at work. When is idea for a mini-theme park is dismissed as too costly and vacuous at the last minute by a major client he seems to have met his match.

Katsuragi, an heir and executive at the global car maker, Nissei Auto, is back from a marketing stint in the US with an authentic conviction that everything is a game. Once the man's daughter by a former mistress teams up with Sakuma so she can come into her inheritance in an expeditious manner—Juri is indeed her father's flesh and blood—the game is good to go!

And the name of this game is a kidnapping!
  • Published: 28 February 2017
  • ISBN: 9781942993834
  • Imprint: Vertical Inc
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $49.99
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"The best mystery novel I read [in 2012] was a standalone translation of a Japanese novel, The Devotion of Suspect X... a puzzle mystery that manages never to become a "cozy..." [The Devotion of Suspect X] is smart at every level." -Orson Scott Card

"Keigo Higashino combines Dostoyevskian psychological realism with classic detective-story puzzles reminiscent of Agatha Christie and E.C. Bentley." -Wall Street Journal

"Keigo Higashino again proves his mastery of the diabolical puzzle mystery with Malice, a story with more turns, twists, switchbacks and sudden stops than a Tokyo highway during Golden Week." -The New York Times Book Review