The Kingdom (A Novel) - Fuminori Nakamura

Yurika is a freelancer in the Tokyo underworld. She poses as a prostitute, carefully targeting potential Johns, selecting powerful and high-profile men. When she is alone with them, she drugs them and takes incriminating photos to sell for blackmail purposes. She knows very little about the organisation she''s working for, and is perfectly satisfied with the arrangement, as long as it means she doesn''t have to reveal anything about her identity, either. She operates alone, doing her best to lock away painful memories. But then a figure from Yurika''s past emerges...