Liar Game

Nao Kanzaki is so painfully honest that deception barely seems to exist in her world. Then a mysterious package containing 100 million yen arrives at her door and pulls her into the Liar Game, a competition where contestants are rewarded for stealing one another's money through manipulation and deceit. Losing does not simply mean defeat, but a crushing debt that can follow a person for life.

After being tricked almost immediately, Nao turns to Shinichi Akiyama, a brilliant former psychology student and notorious swindler newly released from prison. Akiyama understands how people lie; Nao stubbornly believes they can still choose not to. Together they enter a succession of psychological battles where every alliance can be a trap, and where Nao's seemingly disastrous honesty may prove more dangerous to the game itself than any clever deception.