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?A disquieting and original work of art.??The New York Times
?A compelling tour-de-force.... A horror story of such magnitude that it stuns the mind.??The New York Times Book Review
?An exciting, imaginative, and entertaining novel.??San Francisco Chronicle --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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In this gripping novel by the author of The Woman in the Dunes, an alluring woman hires a private eye to track down her missing husband. The detective's investigation takes him deep into Tokyo's sleazy underworld, with its back-alley nude bars, savage gangs, and relentless violence. Before long he is facing both outward danger and inward turmoil as he comes to identify with the man he is hunting.
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