He is a completely unremarkable man.
Who wears the same black suit every day.
Boards the same train to work each morning.
And arrives home to his wife and son each night.
But he has a secret.
He likes to kill people.
With just weeks to go before the Olympics and the world's eyes firmly fixed on Tokyo the body of young British student, Skye Mackintosh, is discovered in a love hotel.
Tokyo's Homicide Department are desperate for a lead. As a last resort they enlist the help of a brilliant former detective whose haunted personal life has forced him into exile thousands of miles away.
But it isn't long before Kosuke Iwata discovers the darkness in the neon drenched streets as Skye, like so many others, had her own secrets.
Lies and murder haunt a city where old ghosts and new whisper from its darkest of corners and the truth is always just out of sight.
Praise for Nicolás Obregón:
*Crime Time’s BOOK OF THE MONTH*
*Raven Crime Reads TOP BOOK OF THE YEAR*
‘What Obregon gives us is a real smorgasbord of the good, the bad and ugly where the lines of morality and decent behaviour become fractured, and at times are difficult to discern. People acting in surprising and unpredictable ways give a real emotional heft to this book, and also work beautifully in concealing the real villains of the piece, with revenge being another incredibly strong motif.” This book encapsulated all my favourite aspects of crime thriller writing from character, to location, to plot and was an absolute joy, as the whole trilogy has been.’ - Raven Crime Reads
'Masterpiece' - Jeffery Deaver
'I'm awestruck' - A. J. Finn
'A dark, brutal ride' - Anthony Horowitz
'Obregón is the most atmospheric of writers and evokes local landscapes and moods with diamond-like as well as dreamy precision and the three simultaneous plots advance with clockwork-like and relentless efficiency and won’t allow the reader a moment’s respite. A stunning achievement that should raise the author’s profile to crime’s Premier league or there is no justice in this world' - Maxim Jakubowski
'Hard-boiled noir doesn't get any darker or more twisted than this. Not for the faint-hearted' - The Times