Seventeen

From the author of SIX FOUR the million-copy-selling Japanese crime phenomenon and Sunday Times bestseller.

‘He’s a master’ New York Times Book Review

An investigative thriller set amid the aftermath of an air disaster

1985. Kazumasa Yuuki, a seasoned reporter at the North Kanto Times, runs a daily gauntlet against the power struggles and office politics that plague its newsroom. But when an air disaster of unprecedented scale occurs on the paper’s doorstep, its staff are united by an unimaginable horror, and a once-in-a-lifetime scoop.

2003. Seventeen years later, Yuuki remembers the adrenaline-fuelled, emotionally charged seven days that changed his and his colleagues’ lives. He does so while making good on a promise he made that fateful week - one that holds the key to its last unsolved mystery, and represents Yuuki’s final, unconquered fear.

Praise for SIX FOUR and Hideo Yokoyama

‘Not only is Six Four an addictive read, it is an education about Japan, its police and its society, and simply one of the best crime novels I have ever read’ David Peace

‘A classic plot about a decent cop painstakingly uncovering corruption suddenly turns into one of the most remarkable revenge dramas in modern detective fiction’ The Sunday Times

‘The plot would grip in any language . . . not just a police procedural but a guide book to Japan . . . There’s much talk these days of binge viewing; here is a binge read’ the Guardian

‘A huge hit in Japan and it’s easy to see why . . . steadily gathers menace and power until it becomes addictive’ The Times

‘It’s very different, in tone, narrative and style, from almost anything out there . . . the twist and the pay-off are worth the wait’ the Observer

‘Six Four gives back in abundance everything that the reader is prepared to give’ Independent

Six Four was a Sunday Times bestseller in both hardback and paperback, was shortlisted for the 2016 CWA International Dagger, was named in the Crime and Thrillers of 2016 roundups in the Guardian, Telegraph, Financial Times and Glasgow Herald. It has since sold over 60,000 copies across all editions. TV rights for Six Four have been optioned to House Productions.

On publication in Japan Seventeen achieved a 2003 Weekly Bunshun Mystery Ranking #1 and came second in the first Honya Award in 2004. It was subsequently made into a TV drama (2005) and then a film (2008), both of which won multiple awards in Japan

Possesses all the patience and pulsating tension of Six Four, as well as Yokoyama’s characteristically forensic examination of company dynamics and office infighting