Seventeen

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In 1985, veteran reporter Kazumasa Yuuki battles the daily politics of the North Kanto Times newsroom — until an air disaster of unprecedented scale occurs on the paper's doorstep, uniting the staff around a once-in-a-lifetime scoop. Seventeen years later, Yuuki returns to the crash site, carrying unresolved questions about what happened in the newsroom during those chaotic days — and what it cost the people who covered the story. Hideo Yokoyama's dual-timeline thriller draws on the real 1985 Japan Airlines crash to examine how a catastrophe transforms the people who report it. The newsroom sequences have the procedural intensity of Six Four; the present-day investigation adds layers of guilt, memory, and the toll journalism takes on those who practice it. A novel about the stories we tell the world — and the ones we can never tell ourselves.