Kazuaki Takano Books

He is a new kind of human He may mean the end for the rest of us... One bright morning in Washington D.C., the US President learns of a terrifying new threat to national security. Soon afterwards, American mercenary Jonathan Yeager is asked to lead a team into the Congo to eliminate a mysterious enemy - a job which will help him pay for treatment for his dying son. But when they reach Africa, the threat turns out to be a three-year-old child named Akili: the next step in human evolution. The soldiers are under orders to kill the boy before his full potential can be realised. Yet Akili's advanced knowledge might be the only hope Yeager has to save his son's life... With time running out to choose a side, Yeager must decide whether to follow his orders or to save a creature who may not be as harmless or innocent as he appears. Because Akili is already the smartest being on the planet, with the power to either save humanity - or destroy it. [This novel was first published in 2014 as GENOCIDE OF ONE.]

He is a new kind of human He may mean the end for the rest of us... One bright morning in Washington D.C., the US President learns of a terrifying new threat to national security. Soon afterwards, American mercenary Jonathan Yeager is asked to lead a team into the Congo to eliminate a mysterious enemy - a job which will help him pay for treatment for his dying son. But when they reach Africa, the threat turns out to be a three-year-old child named Akili: the next step in human evolution. The soldiers are under orders to kill the boy before his full potential can be realised. Yet Akili's advanced knowledge might be the only hope Yeager has to save his son's life... With time running out to choose a side, Yeager must decide whether to follow his orders or to save a creature who may not be as harmless or innocent as he appears. Because Akili is already the smartest being on the planet, with the power to either save humanity - or destroy it.

The internationally bestselling, award-winning Japanese thriller about a child who may be the future of the human race--or the cause of its extinction. During a briefing in Washington D.C., the President is informed of a threat to national security: a three-year-old boy named Akili, who is already the smartest being on the planet. Representing the next step in human evolution, Akili can perceive patterns and predict future events better than most supercomputers, and is capable of manipulating grand-scale events like pieces on a chess board. And yet, for all that power, Akili has the emotional maturity of a child--which might make him the most dangerous threat humanity has ever faced. An American soldier, Jonathan Yeager, leads an international team of elite operatives deep into the heart of the Congolese jungle under Presidential orders to destroy this threat to humanity before Akili's full potential can be realized. But Yeager has a very sick child, and Akili's advanced knowledge of all things, medicine included, may be Yeager's only hope for saving his son's life. Soon Yeager finds himself caught between following his orders and saving a creature with a hidden agenda, who plans to either save humanity as we know it--or destroy it.

『13階段』の衝撃、再び！ 疾走するノンストップ・スリラー！ 都内全域で、一夜のうちに起こる無差別大量殺人。 中世暗黒時代、異端審問官を皆殺しにした「伝説の死者」が、現代の東京に甦る。 圧倒的なスピード感で展開する、待望のエンターテインメント巨編、ここに登場！ 都会の闇を生きてきた悪党・八神俊彦は、運命の一日を迎えるはずだった。生き方を改めるため、自ら骨髄ドナーとなり白血病患者の命を救おうとしていたのだ。 ところがその日、都内で未曾有の無差別大量殺人が発生。大都市・東京は、厳戒態勢に突入した。そして友人の死体を発見した瞬間から、八神の必死の逃走劇が始まった。 警察、謎の集団、正体不明の殺戮者から逃げ切らなければ、八神の骨髄を待つ白血病患者が死ぬ。八神は生き残れるのか？　謎の殺戮者・グレイヴディッガーの正体とは？ 著者渾身のスリラー巨編が、ついにその全貌を現す！

Ein unschuldig wegen Mordes zum Tod Verurteilter soll hingerichtet werden. Der ehemalige Gefängnisaufseher Nangō und der auf Bewährung entlassene Jun'ichi erhalten den Auftrag, den wahren Täter zu finden. Für das ungleiche Ermittlerduo beginnt damit nicht nur ein dramatischer Wettlauf gegen die Zeit, sondern beide müssen sich auch ihrer eigenen Vergangenheit stellen. Bestsellerautor Kazuaki Takano erzählt eine fesselnde Geschichte voller unerwarteter Wendungen und falscher Fährten bis hin zum furiosen Showdown. Am Beispiel der in Japan noch angewandten Todesstrafe stellt er die Frage nach Schuld und Reue, nach dem Recht auf Vergeltung. Dabei erzeugt seine vielschichtige Erzählweise eine außergewöhnliche Spannung, die den Leser bis zur letzten Seite nicht loslässt.