Loop

Loop
Koji Suzuki

Glynne Walley

Stunning Japanese novel with a chilling twist – the follow-up to Ring and Spiral.Kaoru's father, Hideyuki, lies dying in a Tokyo hospital, his body ravaged by viral cancer. This nightmarish incurable disease has sprung out of nowhere and has begun to affect organisms all over the planet.Twenty years ago Hideyki worked on a virtual reality project which replicated evolution on earth, called the Loop. The project failed when the organisms within it inexplicably stopped reproducing normally and started cloning. Nearly all of the other scientists who worked on the Loop are already dead – from cancer.To get to the heart of the mystery, Kaoru must travel to the other side of the planet, to the Mojave desert. The secret he encounters there will overturn everything he thought he knew about the world – and his own identity.In this suspense-filled follow-up to ‘Ring’ and ‘Spiral’, Suzuki masterfully confounds the reader with a stunning new twist on the Ring mythology.

LOOP

KOJI SUZUKI

Translation

Glynne Walley

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Copyright © Koji Suzuki 2005

First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2006

First published in the USA by Vertical, Inc 2005

Originally published in Japan as Rupu by Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 1998

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Contents

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Title Page (#u87c1e7e0-52da-599b-b187-6c98db1e2270)

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Part One: At the End of the Night (#ulink_085de9d8-689b-53ab-8a46-5ff55cba714e)

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Part Two: The Cancer Ward (#ulink_9e1104d7-5227-5f79-80d6-b02ed4a145c5)

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Chapter 4 (#ulink_d9f184ab-ddcb-50bb-924b-9650767733d9)

Chapter 5 (#ulink_5458f071-644f-5f1c-844d-64c50492d6e1)

Chapter 6 (#ulink_d6824260-3a97-5a6b-8550-1e8a43b8fbe8)

Chapter 7 (#litres_trial_promo)

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