Crossfire

By: Miyuki Miyabe

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Hardcover | 1 January 1999

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Young, pretty Junko Aoki has the extraordinary ability to start fires using just willpower. Furthermore, she believes it to be her duty to use her pyrokinetic powers to punish violent criminals who have evaded justice. A chance encounter one night sends Junko on a mission to rescue a young woman abducted by a vicious gang of youths. The trail of bodies she leaves across Tokyo attracts the attention of two very different groups: a secretive vigilante group that tries to recruit her, and the arson squad of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.
Hardly able to keep up with Junko's killing spree, Detective Chikako Ishizu finds herself drawn deeper into a case that defies belief. Although on opposite sides of the law, both Junko and Chikako are committed to fighting evil, and both find their deeply held beliefs challenged. While Junko is increasingly disturbed by the innocent lives lost in the crossfire, Chikako is gradually forced to accept the possible existence of paranormal powers. Crossfire takes us on a hair-raising journey through the landscape of urban Tokyo - a journey that challenges us, along with Chikako, to consider what's right and what's wrong in the name of justice.

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A veteran Tokyo cop hunts a vigilante killer with paranormal powers. Junko Aoki has the gift, or the curse, of pyrokinesis. She can make objects and people explode into flames just by focusing her mind on them. Ever since a catastrophic accident 20 years ago when her uncanny force got out of hand, she's tried to keep a lid on it. But a recent spree by a gang of teenaged thrill-killers who abduct and murder high-school girls has brought her back into the fray with a vengeance. Determined to fight the good fight, yet terrified of her powers, she's a natural double for Sgt. Chikako Ishizu, an arson investigator with the Tokyo Metropolitan police, who can scarcely believe the carnage at the scene of Junko's latest holocaust. As Chikako and Makihara, the homicide detective assigned to a strikingly similar case, close in on Junko, she's pursuing the ringleaders behind the abductions. But the most important pursuit of all may be the attempt by a group calling itself the Guardians to recruit Junko along with Kaori Kurata, a girl of 13 who's been linked to over a dozen suspicious fires. Miyabe's trademark sociological dissection of contemporary Japan (Shadow Family, 2005, etc.) takes a backseat to Stephen King set pieces in the most conventional of her three novels translated into English. But she still manages to capture the warring loyalties of her avengers. (Kirkus Reviews)

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