Publisher's Synopsis
A stupendous best-seller in Japan and standing at number 17 on Amazon US's 'Best Mysteries of the Century' list, this tale of murder, adultery and intrigue is set in the mid 1960s against the crash of the Tokyo stock market. Shigeo Segawa, once a successful stock trader, but now left jobless, out of luck and full of shame, takes on a high-paying job selling automatic massage machines. But all is not as it at first seems and he soon finds himself involved in industrial espionage, betrayal of a close friend and an accusation of murder. Clever, surprising and refreshingly different.
