Seventeen

Title:

Seventeen

Author:

Yokoyama, Hideo, 1957- author.

Added Author:

Kawai, Louise Heal,

Personal Author:

Yokoyama, Hideo, 1957- author.

ISBN:

9780374261245

Edition:

First American edition.

Physical Description:

xii, 352 pages ; 24 cm

General Note:

"Originally published in Japanese in 2003 by Bungeishunju Ltd., Tokyo, as Kuraimāzu hai (Climber's High)"

Abstract:

1985: Kazumasa Yuuki, a reporter at the North Kanto Times, runs a daily gauntlet of power struggles and office politics that plague its newsroom. When an air disaster occurs on the paper's doorstep, its staff is united by an unimaginable horror-- and a once-in-a-lifetime scoop. 2003: Seventeen years later Yuuki remembers the 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. -- adapted from jacket

Seventeen years after an air disaster of unprecedented scale occured near his newspaper office, reporter Kazumasa Yuuki makes good on a promise he made during that supercharged week and solves a mystery.

Subject Term:

Aircraft accidents -- Japan -- Fiction.

Mountaineering -- Fiction.

Newspapers -- Fiction.

Reporters and reporting -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Japan -- Fiction.

Genre:

Detective and mystery stories.

Novels.

Psychological fiction.

Suspense fiction.

Thrillers (Fiction)

Summary:

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Summary

A tense, powerful thriller from the bestselling author of Six Four

1985. Kazumasa Yuuki, a seasoned reporter at the North Kanto Times , runs a daily gauntlet of 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 is united by an unimaginable horror and a once-in-a-lifetime scoop.

2003. Seventeen years later, Yuuki remembers the adrenaline-fueled, 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 solved mystery and represents Yuuki's final, unconquered fear.

From Hideo Yokoyama, the celebrated author of Six Four , comes Seventeen --an investigative thriller set amid the aftermath of disaster.

Reviews (1)

Kirkus Review

Japanese mystery novelist Yokoyama (Six Four, 2017) delivers a terse tale of journalism and tragedy.Yokoyama worked as a newspaper reporter for years before leaving to write thrillers, and here he recalls a tale straight from the headlines: the crash, then the world's deadliest, of an airplane on a mountain. As we know from The Eiger Sanction, mountains are places that can bring out noble instincts but are generally scary. Not that that keeps Kazumasa Yuuki from heading there, testing himself against the "treacherously difficult" rock as a climber, watching the memorial lists of would-be alpinists grow. A disaffected reporter-turned-editor, Yuuki takes the lead when Japan Airlines Flight 123 meets that rock, a story that pits him and his team at the provincial North Kanto Times against the airline, its executives desperate to excuse themselves from responsibility, and against the management of the newspaper itself. The former is comparatively easy to overcome as Yuuki's fellow reporters turn up evidence of corner-cutting maintenance. As for the latterwell, the bosses protect their own, as Yuuki learns when, three days into his special reports on the crash, he's told to take the story off the front page in favor of a story about a politician's visit to a local shrine. "The seeds of powerlessness had been planted in his heart," writes Yokoyama, "and they were steadily growing." Yuuki finds himself and his lost resolve in that field of corpses: He rebels, concocting a spy caper-worthy stratagem to get around the bosses. Yokoyama's tale is slow to unfold, and it's less fraught with peril than the usual mystery, but as a roman clef it speaks to his hope, as he writes in the preface, that "the reader will witness both the positive and negative essence of human nature."A pleaser for fans of yarns about and by gumshoes on deadline, from All the President's Men to Michael Connelly's hard-boiled Harry Bosch novels. Maybe not a book to take along on a flight, though. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.