Crossfire = クロスファイア : TP

young, Pretty Junko Aoki Has An Extraordinary Ability She Can Start Fires Through Sheer Force Of Will. When She Begins Using Her Gift Of Pyrokinesis To Take The Law Into Her Own Hands And Punish Violent Criminals, Her Executions Attract The Attention Of Two Very Different Groups: The Guardians, A Secretive Vigilante Organization That Tries To Recruit Her, And The Arson Squad Of The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Soon The Police Are On Junkos Trail, Most Notably Detective Chikako Ishizu, A Rationalist Who Must Come To Terms With The Existence Of Paranormal Forces. As Junkos Crusade Against Evil Escalates And She Finds It Harder To Control Her Power, We Are Taken On A Breathtaking And Brutal Journal Through The Urban Landscape Of Tokyo. . .a Journey That Challenges Us, Along With Chikako, To Think About Whats Right And Whats Wrong In The Name Of Justice. publishers Weekly this Provocative Paranormal Police Procedural From The Prolific Miyabe, Like Her Two Previous Crime Novels Translated Into English (all She Was Worth And Shadow Family), Examines The Dark Side Of Japanese Society. The Complex Story Is Seen Through The Eyes Of Two Very Different Women: Junko Aoki, Who's Afflicted/blessed With Pyrokinesis, The Ability To Start Fires Through Willpower, Which She Uses To Avenge Unsolved Crimes, And Sgt. Chikako Ishizu Of The Tokyo Police Department's Arson Squad, A Pragmatic Skeptic. Chikako And Her Partner Gradually Piece Together A Series Of Baffling Cases In Which Suspected Criminals, Cars And Even Buildings Are Inexplicably Incinerated. Their Investigation Leads To Those With Supernatural Powers, Including A Troubled Young Girl, As Well As To An Underground Citizens' Organization Of Justice Seekers. Despite Uneven Pacing And Some Unlikely Coincidences, This Startling Genre Mix Keeps The Reader Turning The Pages Right Up To The Breathtaking Climax. (mar.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information. Imagine possessing the paranormal ability to set someone on fire. Toast. Just by thinking about it. Junko Aoki has those pyrokinetic powers, and--in the third novel by Japanese horror-mystery writer Miyuki Miyabe to be translated into English--she's using them to leave a trail of smoldering bodies across Tokyo