Seventeen
(Book)

"Originally published in Japanese in 2003 by Bungeishunju Ltd., Tokyo, as Kuraimāzu hai (Climber's High)"

Seventeen years after an air disaster of unprecedented scale occured near his newspaper office, reporter Kazumasa Yuuki makes good on a promise he made during that supercharged week and solves a mystery.

1985: Kazumasa Yuuki, a reporter at the North Kanto Times, runs a daily gauntlet of power struggles and office politics that plague its newsroom. When an air disaster occurs on the paper's doorstep, its staff is united by an unimaginable horror-- and a once-in-a-lifetime scoop. 2003: Seventeen years later Yuuki remembers the emotionally charged seven days that changed his and his colleagues' lives. He does so while making good on a promise he made that fateful week-- one that holds the key to its last unsolved mystery and represents Yuuki's final, unconquered fear. -- adapted from jacket

Translated from the Japanese.