Samurai Boogie - Hardcover

Just when he thinks his hands are full, Mori gets a mysterious call from the owner of a swanky Ginza nightclub and mistress to a senior bureaucrat at the Ministry of Health, Masao Miura. It seems that Miura died from "karoshi" or work exhaustion, but his lover isn't convinced. She thinks it was murder and the Mrs. was in on it. Enticed by the lucrative pay a murder investigation reaps, Mori takes the case--all the while, protecting Angel and warding off the brutish Nishio. Fun, fast and raw, Samurai Boogie thrills like Pokeman, satisfies like a sashimi platter and moves like a Ninja warrior: "Like a bee-sting on the balls! The ugly one spins round, spitting fury. Mori seizes the moment, uses it--front foot lashing fast and high. Wolf takes the impact just under the heart, goes staggering backwards, arms wheeling. The gun goes off, a blast at the moon." --Rebekah Warren

'Cyberpunk guru William Gibson has always known that Japan is the coolest place to set a thriller, but no one else has really caught on. Former finance analyst Peter Tasker should change all that, by transferring a hard boiled American Private-eye mystery to the rain-soaked neon streets of 90s Tokyo. Tasker has created a living breathing setting with the otherworldliness of an SF novel . . . Stylish, original and pacier than a shinkansen bullet train. This is Manga Elmore Leonard.' THE MIRROR