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The sleeping dragon / Miyuki Miyabe ; translated by Deborah Stuhr Iwabuchi.

by Miyabe, Miyuki, 1960-

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Kodansha International ; Distributed in the United States by Kodansha America, 2010, c2009.

Journalists -- Fiction.

Psychics -- Fiction.

Missing persons -- Fiction.

Tokyo (Japan) -- Fiction.

Ryū wa nemuru. English English

[Kodansha International ed.]

301 p. ; 24 cm.

First published in Japanese in 1991 by Shuppan Geijutsusha as Ryu wa nemuru --T.p. verso.

Translated from the Japanese.

"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 fiancee. 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."--Inside jacket.

Japanese fiction -- Translations into English.

Occult fiction.

Mystery fiction.

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