…You found an old audio cassette and a battered diary among your father's belongings. And they froze in horror. Because, reading the yellowed pages, they understood: your father was involved in the most high-profile crime of the last 30 years. And from the magnetic tape comes the instructions of the criminals, dictating where they should bring the money. And reading it... your childish voice!

For Sone Toshii, a successful tailor, this recording sounds like a funeral alarm. Especially when he gets a business card from a local newspaper journalist in the mail. Toshiya understands that this story was somehow found out, and now his name will be mercilessly rolled out in the dirt. How to save your honor, how to protect your little daughter from shame? And Toshiya decides to find out for himself what happened 30 years ago, when a criminal group staged the biggest attempted murder in the history of Japan ...

Every 100th resident of Japan read the novel.

Story based on a true story.

The novel was made into a 2020 best-selling film.

Winner of the Shukan Bunshun Mystery Best 10 Award and the Futaro Yamada Prize in 2016.