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A rare criminal who traveled across the Japanese archipelago and was on the run for seventy-eight days, playing the police at his fingertips! A pioneer of Japanese crime literature, a classic masterpiece based on real cases and depicting the "Abyss of Evil"; the original film of the same name directed by Imamura Shohei won the 74th Naoki Award. In the 1960s, Japan's economy was developing rapidly on the back of the "Olympic Boom", and the country was filled with longing for the future. However, in October 1963, the discovery of two miserable corpses in Yukuhashi City, Fukuoka Prefecture instantly shattered this beautiful illusion. The murderer, Akira Nishiguchi, became a wanted criminal in the national spotlight. While on the run, he disguised himself as a university professor, lawyer, etc., Defrauded, and killed again... The whole of Japan was in panic. Takami Sagi followed Akira Nishiguchi's escape route, transforming this cunning and cold-blooded intelligent criminal into the literary character Enoki Tsuiwa, recreating his chilling criminal trajectory.