Piercing - Ryu Murakami
Kawashima is graphic designer with a loving wife and a baby.
One night, he holds an icepick to the baby and is consumed by dark thoughts. His wife wakes, but does not see the icepick.
He decides to take a vacation of sorts, to "observe salarymen" was the excuse, but his inner demons consume him and he sets about fulfilling his dark obsessions.
A tale of psychosis, darkness and violence as the author leads the reader into a sick and deranged world of psychotic terror.
Gripping, disturbing and terrifying.
Not for the faint hearted. 3 3/4 out of 5.