AustLit

'On an idyllic spring afternoon in March, two suicide bombers are unleashed on Tokyo and Osaka. In the bloodstained aftermath lie the dead and wounded…and clues that point to something even more chilling.

'Inspector Luther Haviland, an elite investigator with the Japanese National Police Agency’s secret Division Ten, has reason to believe the attacks are part of a much larger offensive. As more crimes link together, a terrifying picture begins to emerge of a death cult and its rapidly approaching tsunami of destruction.

'While the citizens of Japan struggle to come to grips with the violence that has been unleashed on the streets of their cities, deep inside Japan’s infamous ‘suicide forest’ of Aokigahara an apocalyptic cult leader prepares an assault to cleanse the environment of its most toxic pollutant: mankind. ' (Publication summary)