Prefecture D: Four Novellas Set in the World of Six Four

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Four novellas set inside the police bureaucracy of Prefecture D, where the mysteries are as much institutional as criminal. A personnel officer must investigate a legendary detective's suspicious behavior. A media liaison navigates the politics of a case the department would rather bury. Each story centers on an officer caught between duty and the organization that demands his loyalty — and makes that loyalty increasingly difficult to maintain. Hideo Yokoyama, called "the dean of Japanese noir," writes police fiction that finds its tension not in car chases but in memos, meetings, and the agonizing politics of hierarchy. His detectives are civil servants first and investigators second, and the procedural detail is so precise it becomes its own form of suspense. Four mysteries about the most dangerous criminal organization in Prefecture D — the police department itself.