AKIRA OTANI

Ren Hiyama, que intenta cambiar el mundo con el poder de la hipnosis. Por otro lado, Kuonji, que está bajo custodia de la policía, ¡¡Finalmente se da cuenta de que la identidad de la inducción psicolçogica es la Hipnosis...!! ¡¿Cuál será el destino de Hayama y Kuonji?! ¡¡La batalla donde se utilizan las sorprendentes técnicas hipnóticas!! ¡El sorprendente y prohibido mundo de la hipnosis!

*Winner of the CrimeFest Specsavers Debut Award**Winner of the Crime Fiction Lover Best Translation - Editors Choice**A Telegraph Thriller of the Year**Shortlisted for the CWA Dagger in Translation*The epitome of the female-led revenge thriller.CRIME FICTION LOVEREnraging, funny and exciting.THE TIMESA fantastically brutal gore fest, this was WILD! If youre looking for a book with Kill Bill and John Wick vibes then look no further, this was a short read but hell, it packed a PUNCH. @thespookybookclubFierce, mixed-race fighter Shindo has been kidnapped by the yakuza. After brutally beating most of them in an attempt to escape, she is forced to work as a bodyguard to protect the gang bosss sheltered daughter Shoko, a strange, friendless eighteen-year-old who could order Shindos death in a moment.At first Shindo derides Shokos naivete, but as the men around them grow ever more bloodthirsty and controlling, she becomes ferociously devoted to her charge. However, she knows that if things continue as they are, neither woman can expect to survive much longer.But could there ever be a different life for two people like them?READERS LOVE THE NIGHT OF BABA YAGA:So, so immersive with moments of real tenderness in amidst all the violence and gore. [...] Highly recommend. @manareadsbooksThere are some books that as youre reading you can totally see as a great movie, this was one of those for me. @katandthebookshelfEvery page is bursting with action [...] If youre looking for a read thatll get your heart racing and keep you guessing, this is it. Its the kind of book youll probably devour in one sitting because you cant put it down. Seriously, I cant recommend this enough. @bookish_mum_instaSearingly violent and wonderfully tender by turns.GUARDIANSlick and brutal. LUCIE MCKNIGHT HARDYA lean and mean tale of female empowerment.LA TIMESA violent and transgressive marvel. JOHN COPENHAVERA breezy, sleazy piece of revisionist pulp. TOM BENNA gripping, unbreakable thriller.TOKYO WEEKENDERThis tender yet furious crime saga will leave readers hungry for more from Otani soon.PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, starred review

A fierce mixed-race fighter develops a powerful attachment to the yakuza princess shes been forced to protect in this explosive queer thriller: Kill Bill meets The Handmaiden meets Thelma and Louise.Tokyo, 1979. Yoriko Shindo, a workhorse of a woman who has been an outcast her whole life, is kidnapped and dragged to the lair of the Naiki-kai, a branch of the yakuza. After she savagely fends off a throng of henchmen in an attempt to escape, Shindo is only permitted to live under one condition: that she will become the bodyguard and driver for Shoko Naiki, the obsessively sheltered daughter of the gangs boss.Eighteen-year-old Shoko, pretty and silent as a doll, has no friends, wears strangely old-fashioned clothes, and is naive in all matters of life. Originally disdaining her ward, Shindo soon finds herself far more invested in Shokos wellbeing than she ever expected. But every man around them is bloodthirsty and trigger-happy. Shindo doubts she and Shoko will survive much longer if nothing changes. Could there ever be a different life for two women like them?Akira Otanis English-language debut moves boldly through time and across gender, stretching the definitions and possibilities of each concept. Rendered in a gorgeous translation by International Bookershortlisted Sam Bett, this lean, mean thriller proves that bonds forged in fire are unbreakable.