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The Love Agents are group of private eyes who specialize in helping their clients with relationship problems.
Are you crazy about the beautiful girl next door, but haven't the guts to ask her out? Incognito Love Agents will befriend her and set up a scenario that'll turn you into friends. In one case, an agent pretends to hit A girl with a bicycle and runs off - and then the client shows up like a hero. An agent even gives one girl a DVD containing a subliminal image of the client's face, which secretly brainwashes her to think about her would-be lover.
Each love agent has a speciality: one is an actor, one a reporter/photographer, one a master of many languages. In fact, the Love Agents use any means possible, even if they're slightly illegal. They hide. They brainwash. They use bugs and GPS. They fake accidents. Even so, people visit the Agency and pay hundreds of thousands, even millions to pursue a love-at-first-sight or patch up a failed affair.
Not every episode has a happy ending, but All are entertaining and revealing. In particular, the actual climax is the thrilling episode on cracking down on a website pimp. And the poignant love story of the old couple separated for 50 years is a fine finale for the book.

Category Level

Non-fiction
Romance

Editorial Review

The "Love Agents" in this book are real professionals -part private eye, part credit investigator, part marriage matchmaker.
Is scheming to make a couple against the rules of romance? Maybe. But whatever the morality of the Love Agents, isn't the blame really on the clients who decide to hire them to carry out these "amoral" missions? Some reading this book may feel a serious crisis of conscience.
Now the Agency on which the book is based is receiving attention from all the media. And the forthcoming movie will definitely evoke the issue of defining modern love and romance.

Table of contents

• Prologue
• File 1: How to approach your target
• File 2: Between the favourite target and the next-best
• File 3: A trap on the online dating site
• File 4: The truth of the affair
• File 5: How to survive the battlefield
• File 6: First love - reunited after 50 years
• Epilogue

About the Author

Shoko Mizutsugi was born in Hokkaido. After graduating from Kokusai Junior College, she studied in the U.S. from 1993 to 1995. As a transfer student, she majored in journalism and psychology in the Gallatin Division at New York University. She began her freelance career in journalism as a contracted correspondent for the "Shukan Hoseki" journal, and worked on its popular features, such as "Sex and the OL" (i.e., "office lady"). While covering the domain of female love and sexuality, Mizutsugi got into the field of sports journalism and has been covering the major leagues. Now she is active in both New York and Tokyo as a writer, columnist and author.