Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama

Author:Hideo Yokoyama [Yokoyama, Hideo]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781784299842
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2016-03-02T16:00:00+00:00

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As expected, the week failed to start normally. Mikami was woken by a call from Akama, which arrived even before the alarm he’d set for 6 a.m. went off.

‘Have you seen the morning edition of the Toyo?’

‘Not yet.’

‘Well, get a move on and read it.’ Akama sounded ready to explode. Still in bed, Mikami told Akama he would call back. He hung up the phone, threw a dressing gown over his nightshirt, then hurried outside to the letterbox. The Toyo had run some kind of scoop. His mind went first to the bid-rigging charges, but he dismissed the idea, realizing that Akama wouldn’t have called so early for that.

No, he thought.

The Public Safety Committee. The pregnant woman. The old man’s death.

‘Is it something in the papers?’

Minako was already up by the time he came back into the living room, the papers bundled in his hands. She had just finished turning on the heater. She was frowning, looking nervous.

‘Seems so. Could you get me a coffee?’

Having coaxed her into the kitchen, he spread open the sheets of the Toyo, then leafed through to the local section.

Two headlines in bold jumped out from the page.

GIFT VOUCHERS BUY SILENCE

DETENTION FACILITIES IN QUESTION

A chill ran across his forehead. He noticed as soon as he started to read that the article was a detailed report with a parent write-up in the national pages. He quickly scanned across to the general news. There. The article lacked the detail of that in the local section, but the headline stood out nonetheless.

PREFECTURE D POLICE HEADQUARTERS. FEMALE DETAINEE ABUSED.

His eyes recoiled from the page.

The article contained an account of gross misconduct, allegedly having taken place at Station F, in the north of the prefecture, that August.

A police sergeant in his fifties who was in charge of detainees has allegedly abused a woman in her thirties. While she was in custody on charges of suspected theft, the officer forced her to let him touch her breasts and genitalia over consecutive nights.

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