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The Name of the Game is a Kidnapping by Keigo Higashino, Jan Mitsuko Cash (translation) is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Name of the Game is a Kidnapping about?
Battle-tested project leader at a PR firm & slippery bachelor, Sakuma sees himself as a player. His smug self-regard doesn’t seem entirely unfounded, both in love & at work. When is idea for a mini-theme park is dismissed as too costly & vacuous at the last minute by a major client he seems to have met his match.Katsuragi, an heir and executive at the global car maker, Nissei Auto, is back from a marketing stint in the US with an authentic conviction that everything is a game. Once the man’s daughter by a former mistress teams up with Sakuma so she can come into her inheritance in an expeditious manner—Juri is indeed her father’s flesh & blood—the game is good to go!And the name of this game is a kidnapping!°°° Keigo Higashino was born in the lowest of lowly ghettos in Osaka, to poor parents, in a tiny house that in his words was “always one room short.” He lived off hand-me-downs, & from girls at that. Always lonely, he took to reading massive amounts of fiction—anything he could get his hands on.An engineer by training, he became a full-time writer when his After School won the Edogawa Rampo Prize in 1985. His stateside debut came when Naoko was translated and published by Vertic
Who reads The Name of the Game is a Kidnapping?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Keigo Higashino, Jan Mitsuko Cash (translation)
- Publisher
- Vertical, Penguin Random House
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781942993834
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, True Crime, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 4.29 / 5 (642 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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