A notebook falls from the sky. Whoever's name is written in it dies.

Light Yagami is seventeen, bored, and certain the world deserves better. What follows is one of manga's great cat-and-mouse stories — a battle of intelligence between a self-appointed god and the one detective brilliant enough to hunt him.

Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's Death Note is relentless, meticulously plotted, and impossible to put down.