Chapter 20The call from the Endo brothers early that morning came as a surprise since Sakaguchi assumed they wanted nothing to do with the police. They asked him to come right away. Sakaguchi had Sugamo go with him since Hiroshi had infuriated him by not answering his calls and not letting him know where Jamie was. Hiroshi was getting as bad as Takamatsu.
Sugamo pulled the car under the spreading ginkgo tree in front of the bookstore in Jinbocho. When Sakaguchi got out, he instantly understood why they’d called—the front window was a spider web of splintered glass.
Sakaguchi pushed the door open and shards of glass tinkled to the sidewalk. The bookstore shelves, formerly overflowing from ceiling to floor, were emptied. Knee-high jumbles of ukiyoe prints, antique manuscripts and rare book
