Will Light Yagami utilise the ability to control death he discovers in a notebook for good or evil? Light Yagami is an excellent student with promising future, but he is also incredibly bored. But when he discovers the Death Note, a book left behind by a mischievous Shinigami death god, everything changes. Light has promised to utilise the power of the Death Note to purge the world of evil since everybody whose name is inscribed in the notebook perishes. But when criminals start dying, the police send the renowned detective L to find the murderer. Will Light lose sight of his admirable objective?or his life?with L close behind him? Light has always believed he can outsmart others. everyone, but L's prot?g?s are proving to be more of a challenge than he anticipated. The more Light mentally maneuvers, the tighter the net around him becomes. And now Near and Mello are working to break the task force apart and expose Kira from within! Light has always held up under pressure in the past, but will the stress of this new line of attack and the strain of maintaining three different personalities be the beginning of his end?