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FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SIX FOUR: A TENSE INVESTIGATION IN THE AFTERMATH OF AN AIR DISASTER.

‘He’s a master’ New York Times Book Review
‘Very different . . . to almost anything out there’ Observer

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.

2002. 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.

Seventeen is a brilliant novel on any level – it’s a gripping page turner, while remaining moving and complex. It’s a deeply satisfying read and it will be a while before I read anything as good’ William Ryan
‘An astringent, unforgiving picture of modern Japanese society’ Guardian

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New York Times Book Review
He's a master.
Washington Post
Yokoyama possesses that elusive trait of a first-rate novelist: the ability to grab readers' interest and never let go.
Guardian
Not just a police procedural but a guide book to Japan.
Observer
Very different, in tone, narrative, and style, from almost anything out there.
William Ryan
Seventeen is a brilliant novel on any level - it's a gripping page turner, while remaining moving and complex. It's a deeply satisfying read and it will be a while before I read anything as good.
Barry Forshaw
Yokoyama's successor to the mesmeric Six Four is every bit as ambitious and compelling. Reinventing the genre of the investigative thriller to create something rich and strange.
Guardian
An astringent, unforgiving picture of modern Japanese society.