Maria Wo Hakobe

[Machine Translation] A new request comes to Kazuko, a 17-year-old unlicensed courier, to transport a drug under development and research data taken by Yuriko Shima, a researcher at the Institute of Medical Biology of Toa University of Science. Kazuko, who can remember roads she has driven once as images, takes Shima along in a Subaru Forester to Suwa in Nagano Prefecture, but along the way they are attacked by an unidentified group of people. Kazeko escapes from danger with her excellent driving skills, and asks Jin, an assassin she knows, to escort her. As the feelings of the three men, each with his own dark past, intersect, Shima reveals the identity of a drug that threatens to overturn the very foundations of this world.... Can Kazuko and her friends make it to Suwa Lake by dodging various sabotage attempts by yakuza gangsters and spies from a certain country? And what is Shima's real purpose behind it? Winner of the 14th Agatha Christie Award.

17歳、無免許の運び屋・風子のもとに持ち込まれた新たな依頼は、東亜理科大医生物学研究所の研究員・志麻百合子が持ち出した開発中の医薬品と研究データを運ぶことだった。一度走った道を映像として覚えられる風子は、スバルのフォレスターに志麻を同乗させて長野県の諏訪を目指すが、道中で正体不明の一団の襲撃を受ける。卓越した運転技術で危地を脱した風子は、顔見知りの殺し屋・仁に護衛を依頼する。それぞれに暗い過去を抱えた三人の思いが交差するなか、志麻の口から語られた医薬品の正体は、この世界を根底から覆しかねないものだった...。ヤクザや某国のスパイなど様々な妨害工作をかわし、風子たちは諏訪湖にたどり着けるのか。そして、志麻に隠された本当の目的とは。第14回アガサ・クリスティー賞大賞受賞作。