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Spiral
Koji Suzuki
Glynne Walley
Stunning Japanese thriller with a chilling supernatural twist – the follow-up to Ring.Pathologist Ando is at a low point in his life. His small son’s death from drowning has resulted in the break-up of his marriage and he is suffering from traumatic recurrent nightmares. Work is his only escape, and his depressing world of loneliness and regret is shaken up when an old rival from medical school, Ryuji Takayama, turns up on his slab ready to be dissected.Through Ryuji’s bizarre demise Ando learns of a series of mysterious deaths that seem to have been caused by a sinister virus. From beyond the grave Ryuji appears to be leading Ando towards a suspicious videotape – could this hold the answer to the riddle of the strange deaths? Or is it merely the first clue? When Ando meets Mai, an attractive former student of Ryuji’s, his desire to solve the puzzle transcends curiosity and becomes a matter of life or death.‘Spiral’ is the stunning sequel to the highly acclaimed ‘Ring’, and can also be read as a standalone.
SPIRAL
KOJI SUZUKI
Translation
Glynne Walley
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Copyright © Koji Suzuki 2004
First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2005,
First published in the USA by Vertical, Inc 2004,
Originally published in Japan as Rasen by Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 1995
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Source ISBN: 9780007240142
Ebook Edition © OCTOBER 2015 ISBN: 9780007331581
Version: 2015-10-06
Contents
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Title Page (#u2dc31d0f-0476-528f-89f9-9597786530e6)
Copyright (#ulink_25f75d04-b31b-5a07-9d82-dd221ac57ab1)
Prologue (#ulink_3a924831-412b-5812-84e5-bde02aec8572)
Part One: Dissecting (#ulink_dffb3930-20c3-59e5-a554-39b87b02d052)
Chapter 1 (#ulink_645bc003-c384-55c2-95d9-eb8e2404a4f6)
Chapter 2 (#ulink_1d1e6c1b-1e97-5185-9986-c92096a3aa16)
Chapter 3 (#ulink_a4f24c73-fa88-5502-8424-322489fd804e)
Chapter 4 (#ulink_d398774c-6375-5c9c-bc78-af7ae09b16de)
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Part Two: Vanishing
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Part Three: Decoding
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Part Four: Evolving
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Part Five: Foreshadowing
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Epilogue
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PROLOGUE (#ulink_75c7d6ec-5daa-5c1b-be21-dce731f2e58c)
Mitsuo Ando awoke from a dream in which he was sinking into the sea. The trilling of the telephone insinuated itself into the sound of the surf, and the next minute he was jerked into wakefulness, as though the waves had taken him.
He stretched his arm out over the side of the bed and picked up the receiver.
“Hello.”
He waited, but no sound came through the line.
“Hello,” he said again, sternly this time, urging the caller to reply. There came a woman’s voice, so morose it made him shudder.
“Did you get it?”
The voice filled Ando with fatigue. He felt as if he were being dragged into a dark ditch. The dream from which he’d just awakened flashed before his eyes. A huge wave had suddenly sucked him up off a beach: as he sank to the bottom of the sea he lost all sense of up or down, right or left, until he was helpless against the current … As always, he’d felt a tiny hand grasping at his shin. Every time he had the dream, he felt on his feet the touch of that little hand, those anemone-like fingers slipping away to vanish into the depths of the ocean. There was absolutely nothing he could do to prevent it, and it tortured him. He stretched out his arms, sure that he should be able to reach the body, but he just couldn’t get a grip on it. It eluded his grasp every time, leaving behind only a few soft, fine strands of hair.
The woman’s voice reminded him with unpleasant vividness of the soft feel of that hair.
“Yes, it arrived,” Ando answered, annoyed.
The form for their divorce. It had arrived two or three days ago, with his wife’s signature and seal already affixed. All Ando had to do was sign it and stamp his own seal on it, and the paper would have fulfilled the purpose of its existence. But he hadn’t done it yet.
“And?” There was weariness in his wife’s voice as she prodded him. How could she be so blasé about putting an end to seven years of married life?
“And what?”
“I want you to sign it, stamp it, and return it to me.”
