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It's Lunar New Year, and the upcoming year is the Year of the Dragon so that seemed like as good a reason as any to pluck this off the long lurking shelves.

From the Blurb:

A fierce typhoon strikes Tokyo one night, flooding the city streets.  Someone removes a manhole cover, and a little boy out searching for his pet goes missing and is believed drowned in the sewers.  Is it murder?

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A fierce typhoon strikes Tokyo one night, flooding the city streets. Someone has unlawfully removed a manhole cover, and a little boy out searching for a lost pet goes missing, possibly drowned in the sewers. Is it murder or accidental? These events bring together a struggling journalist named Kosaka, who is grappling with the ghosts of his past, and two young men who may or may not have psychic powers. The three form an unwilling team not only to search for the lost boy, but also to solve a second mystery involving Kosaka's former fiance.

Kosaka's career and personal life have stagnated since his breakup with Saeko a few years earlier, and locked him in an emotional impasse. Each of his two reluctant comrades --Shinji and Naoya-- is struggling to come to terms with his unique powers ("the dragon within"). While Shinji wants to use his abilities to help others, Naoya seeks to hide his. Kosaka, meanwhile, doubts the young men's ability, all-too-clearly aware that such claims of psychic knowledge of the crimes could in reality mask a criminal culpability. But then all three are forced into an unsteady alliance to try to save the life of someone close to Kosaka.

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Submitted by Karen on Sun, 22/01/2012 - 07:11 pm