The missing British woman who exposed Tokyo's seedy underbelly and led to the capture of one of Japan's most notorious serial rapists
It has one thing going for it: a story that you probably don‘t know well if at all, based on a 23-year-old crime that got plenty of press inand England but much less so in the States. Lucie Blackman was a 21-year-old flight attendant from Kent, U.K. — blonde, blue-eyed and adventurous, hooked on travel and new things.
has the makings of a tense drama fueled by cultural difference. Lucie’s father, Tim, arrives in Tokyo quickly, and grows impatient with the police investigation just as fast. A beefy man who seems preternaturally poised, Tim Blackman knows how to play the media, in Japan and in London, and he deftly inserts himself into the story as a means of speeding up what he sees as a slow-moving Tokyo police response to his daughter’s disappearance.
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