![]() ![]() ![]() Richard Lloyd Parry, an award-winning foreign correspondent, followed the case since Lucie's disappearance. Had Lucie been abducted by a religious cult, or snatched by human traffickers? Who was the mysterious man she had gone to meet? And what did her work, as a "hostess" in the notorious Roppongi district of Tokyo, really involve? As the case unfolded, it drew the attention of prime ministers and sado-masochists, ambassadors and con-men, and reporters from across the world. ![]() The seven months in between had seen a massive search for the missing girl, involving Japanese policemen British private detectives Australian dowsers and Lucie's desperate, but bitterly divided, parents. The following winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a seaside cave. An incisive and compelling account of the case of 21-year-old Lucie Blackman, who stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000 and disappeared forever. ![]()
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