"Absorbing . Six Four is an intensely complicated work, fleshed out by dozens of well-sketched characters, filled with changing perceptions and surprising twists . Its rewards are commensurate: unexpected revelations and quiet instances of human connection." --Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal , The Best New Mysteries " Six Four avoids every crime-fiction clich. The reward is a gripping novel . Complex, ingenious and engrossing . strikingly original . Jonathan Lloyd-Davies has translated Six Four with unobtrusive brio .

Yokoyama possesses that elusive trait of a first-rate novelist: the ability to grab readers'' interest and never let go." --Dennis Drabelle, The Washington Post "Already a bestseller in Japan and the U.K., this cinematic crime novel suffused with fascinating cultural details follows a police department reinvestigating a chilling kidnapping that stumped them 14 years earlier." -- Entertainment Weekly , The Must List " Six Four arrives in America as one of the most anticipated titles of the year . Yokoyama''s novel is a Jenga tower, each plot point and peripheral character part of an intricate balance . What is perhaps most striking about Six Four is the number of stories it contains. It probes the cruelty, pettiness and endless face-saving and ass-covering that come with bureaucratic infighting, as well as the anguished obsession that plagues the bereaved.

It''s an exhaustive police procedural, but one with broken families and, in the relationship of Mikami and his wife, Minako, snapshots of a tender marriage . It''s Yokoyama''s gift for . subtle, multivalent storytelling, for gracefully toying with and escaping genre convention, for matching ambiguity with whodunit resolutions, that makes Six Four a demanding and absorbing book." --Dotun Akintoye, O: The Oprah magazine " Six Four makes its U.S. debut four years after it came out in Japan, where it was a literary blockbuster. The book sold more than a million copies and was adapted both for film and for TV. Part of its appeal was the way it illuminated the country''s deep tradition of hierarchy and control.

This is a story about frustration at work--wanting to do what''s right vs. needing to do what''s expected. Though it deploys common tropes of crime fiction and its lightly noir style, Six Four ''s unusual focus on the PR side of police work sets it apart and gives it unexpected heat. Yokoyama avoids simplistic moralizing, and instead offers the reader a compelling interrogation of duty." --Sarah Begley, Time magazine "Not only is Six Four an addictive read, it is an education about Japan, its police and its society, and simply one of the best crime novels I have ever read." --David Peace, author of GB84 and The Damned Utd "A classic plot [which] suddenly turns into one of the most remarkable revenge dramas in modern detective fiction.[It] will leave even the most observant reader gasping." -- The Sunday Times "Epic in ambition, [ Six Four ] unfurls like a flower in the spring sunlight, steadily increasing its grip as it does so.

" -- Daily Mail "Hideo Yokoyama''s Six Four , translated by Jonathan Lloyd-Davies, is by no means just another mystery novel, but rather an award-winning cultural phenomenon on the scale of Stieg Larsson''s Millennium Trilogy . There is a lot of buzz around this book, all of it well deserved . Yokoyama''s prose is crisp and skillfully translated; the plot . is thoroughly believable and compelling. This is a major book, one that will stay in your mind well after you have turned the last page." --Bruce Tierney, BookPage (Top Pick in Mystery) "Extremely detailed style and carefully wrought characters. Six Four succeeds on several levels: as a police procedural, an incisive character study, and a cold-case mystery." -- Jane Murphy, Booklist "[ Six Four ] takes leisurely twists into the well-kept offices of Japan''s elite while providing a kind of informal sociological treatise on crime and punishment in Japanese society, to say nothing of an inside view of the police and their testy relationship with the media.

Elaborate, but worth the effort. Think Jo Nesb by way of Haruki Murakami, and with a most satisfying payoff." -- Kirkus Reviews.