Award-winning author Keigo Higashino's 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. Sakuma is a high-profile ad agent who was about to land one of the biggest gigs of his career. But he was betrayed...

Award-winning author Keigo Higashino's 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. Sakuma is a high-profile ad agent who was about to land one of the biggest gigs of his career. But he was betrayed by the owner of the company that just hired him. Down on his luck and now on his way out career-wise, he planned to go publically chew out the man who brought him down. Instead, upon uncovering a deep secret, he devises a plan to bring down his new rival in a twisted game called kidnapping.