The Name of the Game is a Kidnapping (paperback)

Award-winning author Keigo Higashino's modern mystery where a once powerful man is broken, and upon finding an opening makes a big and potentially dangerous game in the name of revenge.

THE WAGES OF CYNICISM

A battle-tested project leader at PR firm Cyberplan and a slippery bachelor, Sakuma is smug self-regard personified. But when his idea for a mini-theme park is dismissed as vacuous by client Nissei Auto, he's met his match- Katsuragi, an heir and executive at the global carmaker who believes life is but a game. Once the man's daughter teams up with Sakuma in a bid to come into her inheritance sooner rather than later...it's time for a good ol' kidnapping!