Crossfire (Miyuki Miyabe novel)

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name = Crossfire
title_orig = クロスファイア "Kurosufaia"
translator = Deborah Stuhr Iwabuchi, Anna Husson Isozaki


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author = Miyuki Miyabe
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country = Japan
language = Japanese
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genre = Novel
publisher = Kodansha (Eng. trans.)
release_date = 1998
media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 420 pp (Eng. trans. hardback edition)
isbn = ISBN 4-7700-2993-4 (Eng. trans. hardback edition)
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"Crossfire" (クロスファイア "Kurosufaia") is a novel by Miyuki Miyabe. The novel, published in Japan in 1998, and was published in English by Kodansha America in 2006. The English version was translated by Deborah Stuhr Iwabuchi and Anna Husson Isozaki.

Plot introduction

The novel is about a girl named Junko Aoki (青木淳子 "Aoki Junko"), who has the psychokinetic power of pyrokinesis. She decides to kill criminals in order to make her world better. When Junko sets off to rescue a woman kidnapped by juvenile delinquents, the arson division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police and a secretive vigilante group that wants to recruit her pursue her. Chikako Ishizu (石津ちか子 "Ishizu Chikako"), a policewoman, is astounded by Junko Aoki's case as she digs deeper into it.

Film, TV or theatrical adaptations

There is a 2000 film version of "Crossfire" entitled "Kurosufaia" ("Pyrokinesis" in English).

External references

* [http://www.seekjapan.jp/article-1/771/Crossfire+by+Miyuki+Miyabe "Crossfire" review] "Japanzine" By Zack Davisson