Review
Ring has already been made into a successful film both in Japan and the US.Asawaka is a Japanese journalist who becomes intrigued when his cab driver's anecdote of horror mirrors the circumstances surrounding his niece's sudden and mysterious death. As Asawaka's inquisitiveness leads him to uncover the true horror of the curse, he has exactly one week to reverse the events that he has set in motion, or die. Asawaka and a friend have to work quickly to uncover the charm that will break the evil trend. As his week progresses, more than merely his own life becomes at stake; can he afford to be blase and ignore the warnings? This novel provides a terrifying trip into the supernatural, written in a gripping style. As the events unfold, it is hard to stop turning the pages with the plot becoming more and more frenetic.(Kirkus UK)
Product Description
Stunning, cutting-edge thriller with a chilling supernatural twist from Japan's stylish new literary star. Asakawa is a hardworking journalist who has climbed his way up from local-news beat reporter to writer for his newspaper's weekly magazine. A chronic workaholic, he doesn't take much notice when his seventeen-year-old niece dies suddenly -- until a chance conversation reveals that another healthy teenager died at exactly the same time, in chillingly similar circumstances. Sensing a story, Asakawa begins to investigate, and soon discovers that this strange simultaneous sudden-death syndrome also affected another two teenagers. Exactly one week before their mysterious deaths the four teenagers all spent the night at a leisure resort in the same log cabin. When Asakawa visits the resort, the mystery only deepens. A comment made in the guest book by one of the teenagers leads him to a particular videotape. When he watches it, instead of a movie he finds an odd collection of disparate images with a portentous message at the end: Those who have viewed these images are fated to die at this exact hour one week from now. Asakawa finds himself in a race against time.
by Koji Suzuki
