Ring (Ring Series #1)

ISBN-13:	9781932234411
Publisher:	Kodansha USA
Publication date:	04/25/2004
Series:	Ring Trilogy , #1
Pages:	282
Sales rank:	23,534
Product dimensions:	5.17(w) x 7.98(h) x 0.78(d)
Age Range:	16 Years

The Inspiration for the New Major Motion Picture RINGSA mysterious videotape warns that the viewer will die in one week unless a certain, unspecified act is performed. Exactly one week after watching the tape, four teenagers die one after another of heart failure.Asakawa, a hardworking journalist, is intrigued by his niece's inexplicable death. His investigation leads him from a metropolitan tokyo teeming with modern society's fears to a rural Japan—a mountain resort, a volcanic island, and a countryside clinic—haunted by the past. His attempt to solve the tape's mystery before it's too late—for everyone—assumes an increasingly deadly urgency. Ring is a chillingly told horror story, a masterfully suspenseful mystery, and post-modern trip.The success of Koji Suzuki's novel the Ring has lead to manga, television and film adaptations in Japan, Korea, and the U.S.