Six FourSIX FOUR. THE NIGHTMARE NO PARENT COULD ENDURE. THE CASE NO DETECTIVE COULD SOLVE. THE TWIST NO READER COULD PREDICT. For five days in January 1989, the parents of a seven year old Tokyo schoolgirl sat and listened to the demands of their daughter's kidnapper. They would never learn his identity. They would never see their daughter again. For the fourteen years that followed, the Japanese public listened to the police's apologies. They would never

Here is an epic study of trauma and friendship written with such intelligence and depth of perception that it will be one of the benchmarks against which all other novels that broach those subjects (and they are legion) will be measured

and the narrator

the police are at a loss

The civil wars that have consumed both Rome and Egypt are about to reach their climax in the fabled city of Alexandria

and here is why

She is determined to win them back

love and test each other to the limit

Mia Corvere

and then you're dead

Ryan Gattis weaves a heart-stopping narrative from the perspectives of characters whose stories of the riots were never told

but his father has been called away to Scotland to attend to a family emergency

Dick Coward is an ordinary chap who keeps finding himself in extraordinary circumstances