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Outer Limit (Tentative title)

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Outer Limit

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Detective Igawa and his partner did not take their assignment seriously when they headed for Tokyo's old town to arrest a petty thief. To their absolute astonishment the suspect abruptly shoots at them, leaving Igawa's partner dead and forcing Igawa to flee. Later, Igawa kills the thief by accident. It was then that Igawa learned why the thief resisted the police so fiercely: he was supposed to trade a memory card for a 30 million yen payment by 7:00 that evening. On the spur of the moment, Igawa decides to make the delivery himself. He misinforms his headquarters about his whereabouts, pretending to be in hot pursuit of the suspect. He also talks a former colleague into disposing of the thief's body. In the meantime, a young female police supervisor is visiting the police station where Igawa is assigned senses that something odd was going on. She probes igawa's background and finds incidents in his past that make her suspicious. While Igawa frantically tries to make the delivery on schedule, his pursuers --- including the supervisor as well as a pair of gangsters trying to recover the memory card for their boss --- are closing in on him. Time is running out. Is the game up for Igawa or can he get away with it?
Category Level
Fiction
Suspense
Crime
Author Tokaji, Keita
Publisher Tokuma Shoten
ISBN 4198614911

About the Author

Keita Tokaji was born in Tokyo in 1968. He graduated from the Department of Psychology of Gakushuin University. He was a self-proclaimed musician before he wrote his first book, "Yami no rakuen" (Paradise in the Dark). After this book won the Shincho Mystery Club Award in 1998, Tokaji gave up music to become a full time writer. Since then he has written many books including "Reimi," "Gangster Drive," "Outer Limit," and "Mikakunin Kazoku" (Unidentified Family). Because of his eccentric style, he was once described as Japan's "Guy Ritchie." In addition to "Oboreru Sakana"(Drowing Fish), there are two other movie adaptations of his books: "Gokinjo tantei TOMOE" (Neighborhood Detective TOMOE) and "Outer Limit." Lately, Tokaji has been making short films based on the short stories in his books, "Tokajinof" and "Tokajungo." "Drowning Fish" became a movie of the same name and was released in Japan in 2001 with Ken Watanabe ("Memoirs of a Geisha," "Batman Begins," "The Last Samurai") cast as a senior police officer.The movie won the Kinema Junpo Award for Best Actor of 2001 (Yosuke Kubozuka).


DATA

In-print Edition
Hard Cover
Price
1680 yen
Page
234 pages
Age
adult