"Piercing" is a psychological thriller by the Japanese writer Ryu Murakami. This book tells the story of a young father who wants to kill his ten-day-old daughter, feeling a strong inner urge to violence. He plans to think everything through, but a meeting with a young woman he has decided to use for his mission puts his plans into serious question. "Piercing" is not only a tense story of a life crisis test, but also a study of the dark corners of the human psyche, in which there can be an amazingly dangerous psychological coloring.