Chapter 47Hiroshi came out of the front door and stood in the circular drive in front of Michiko’s building and looked at the surrounding apartment buildings of Azabu. Most were larger than they appeared, and had multiple entrances on different levels of the steep hills and hard-to-walk slopes that enforced a certain privacy and quietude that attracted wealthy people and embassies.
Hiroshi looked at Sugamo still waiting in the car under a streetlamp. It was already dark and Osaki and Ueno had still not arrived. If someone had come out, Sugamo would have seen. Sugamo frowned at Hiroshi—thinking he knew where Sakaguchi had gone—and then pointed to the parking garage to clue him in.
Hiroshi hurried down the incline into the dimly lit parking garage. He looked for Sakaguchi up ahead and at b
