Ring

Ring
Koji Suzuki

Glynne Walley

Robert B. Rohmer

Stunning Japanese thriller with a chilling supernatural twist. The novel that inspired the cult Japanese movie and the Hollywood blockbuster of the same name.Asakawa is a hardworking journalist who has climbed his way up from local-news beat reporter to writer for his newspaper’s weekly magazine. A chronic workaholic, he doesn’t take much notice when his seventeen-year-old niece dies suddenly – until a chance conversation reveals that another healthy teenager died at exactly the same time, in chillingly similar circumstances.Sensing a story, Asakawa begins to investigate, and soon discovers that this strange simultaneous sudden-death syndrome also affected another two teenagers. Exactly one week before their mysterious deaths the four teenagers all spent the night at a leisure resort in the same log cabin.When Asakawa visits the resort, the mystery only deepens. A comment made in the guest book by one of the teenagers leads him to a particular vidoetape with a portentous message at the end:Those who have viewed these images are fated to die at this exact hour one week from now.Asakawa finds himself in a race against time – he has only seven days to find the cause of the teenagers’ deaths before it finds him. The hunt puts him on the trail of an apocalytpic power that will force Asakawa to choose between saving his family and saving civilization.

RING

KOJI SUZUKI

Translation

Robert B. Rohmer

Glynne Walley

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Copyright © Koji Suzuki 2003

First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2004

First published in the USA by Vertical, Inc 2003

Originally published in Japan as Ringu by Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 1991

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Contents

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Part One: Autumn

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Part Two: Highlands

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Part Three: Gusts

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