International Bestseller - One of New York Times Book Review \'s 100 Notable Books of the Year Winner of the Best Japanese Crime Fiction of the Year Award An Award-Winning Phenomenon in Its Native Japan and Already a Critically Celebrated Top-Ten Bestseller in the United Kingdom, Hideo Yokoyama\'s Six Four is an Unforgettable Novel by a Literary Master at the Top of His Form. -- Entertainment Weekly \'s The Must List.
Already a bestseller in Japan and the United Kingdom, this cinematic crime novel suffused with fascinating cultural details follows a police department reinvestigating a chilling kidnapping that stumped them fourteen years earlier.
He would never have even looked if he\'d known what he would find.
But when he spots an anomaly in the files, he uncovers secrets he never could have imagined.
He has worked in the department for his entire career, and while he has his own ambitions and loyalties, he is hoping simply to reach out to the victim\'s family and to help finally put the notorious case to rest.
Mikami does not aspire to solve the crime.
The stigma of the case known as Six Four has never faded; the police\'s failure remains a profound source of shame and an unending collective responsibility.
The police department\'s press officer--Yoshinobu Mikami, a former detective who was involved in the original case and who is now himself the father of a missing daughter--is forced to revisit the botched investigation.
Fourteen years later, the mystery remains unsolved.
And they would never see their daughter alive again.
They would never learn his identity.
For five days, the parents of a seven-year-old Japanese schoolgirl sat and listened to the demands of their daughter\'s kidnapper.
International Bestseller - One of New York Times Book Review \'s 100 Notable Books of the Year Winner of the Best Japanese Crime Fiction of the Year Award An Award-Winning Phenomenon in Its Native Japan and Already a Critically Celebrated Top-Ten Bestseller in the United Kingdom, Hideo Yokoyama\'s Six Four is an Unforgettable Novel by a Literary Master at the Top of His Form
