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| Original Title | 断層顔 |
|---|---|
| Author | 海野 十三 |
| Genre | Detective & Mystery |
| Author Type | Male Author |
| Summary | In a snow-cloaked Tokyo winter of 1977, elderly detective Furumura Soroku—a man sustained by artificial organs and sharpened by decades of intuition—awakens to a new case. His client is Tanimura Shizuka, a trembling young wife swathed in bulletproof finery, haunted by a stalker with a face so grotesque it defies nature. Her husband, Ikari Eiji, is a celebrated hero of a perilous Mars expedition, yet his return conceals shadows: whispers of a stowaway’s betrayal and a fatal lottery aboard a spacecraft years prior. As Furumura delves deeper, he uncovers a tale of jealousy etched in cosmic tragedy—a disfigured man named Kida, once Ikari’s rival in love and survival, now twisted by a teleportation experiment gone awry. Between atomic-age gadgets and labyrinthine subterranean alleys, the detective navigates a web of lies, where loyalty fractures and faces mask deeper deformities of the soul. Can Furumura untangle truth from obsession before violence consumes both pursuer and pursued? The answer lies in the fault lines of human ambition—and the price of playing god among the stars. |
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