The Fine Art of Uncanny Prediction by Robert Goddard Paperback Book 9780552178488

The unmissable new novel from the author of the BBC Between the Covers book club hit The Fine Art of Invisible DetectionThe worlds greatest storyteller GUARDIANOne of the finest crime writers of any generation DAILY MAILOur finest practitioner of the doublecross plotting MICK HERRONUmiko Wada never set out to be a private detective let alone become the onewoman operation behind the Kodaka Detective Agency But so it has turned out thanks to the death of her former boss Kazuto Kodaka in mysterious circumstancesKeen to avoid a similar fate Wada chooses the cases she takes very carefully A businessman who wants her to track down his estranged son offers what appears to be a straightforward assignment Soon she finds herself pulled into a labyrinthine conspiracy with links to a twentysevenyearold investigation by her late employer and to the chaos and trauma of the dying days of the Second World WarAs Wada uncovers a dizzying web of connections between then and now it becomes clear that someone has gone to extraordinary lengths to keep the past buried Soon those she loves most will be sucked into the orbit of one of the most powerful men in Tokyo And he will do whatever it takes to...