1991 Nights: I’ll Pay for My Father’s Death
In a seaside town in 1991, a debt collector’s leather shoes crush Asai Hiromi’s fifteenth year. Her mother runs off with the loan-shark money, and her father is beaten to a bloody pulp. Clutching a boning knife, she lunges at the debt collector’s boss, Yamasaki. She never imagines that this one stab will send her life completely off the rails.
A body switched in the morgue, ten years on the run in Tokyo, and relentless pressure from Detective Miyamoto… She thinks her father’s death is the end of it, until the night her probation ends, when she receives a videotape. The man who died by her blade was never one of Yamasaki’s men. Behind her father’s faked death lie a bank president’s disappearance, a web of collusion between politicians and businessmen, and even the truth that her grandfather founded a yakuza gang.
When her mother takes a knife for her and her father dies to save her, she finally understands: Ever since that bloody night in 1991, she hasn’t been running from a crime, but from a feud spanning three generations.
Now she’s a victims’ rights lawyer, with her grandfather’s blood money and her mother’s voice recorder in hand. This time, she won’t run. She’ll tear the conspiracy out by its roots and make everyone who wronged her and her father kneel before justice and pay with their lives.
