Michael Pronko

The Last Train

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Produktbeschreibung

Winner Shelf Unbound Best Independently Published Book 2018 Solo Medalist Winner New Apple Awards for Excellence 2017 Winner Crime Fiction Beverly Hills Book Awards 2017 Winner Best Mystery Book Excellence Awards 2017 Detective Hiroshi Shimizu investigates white collar crime in Tokyo. When an American businessman turns up dead, his mentor Takamatsu calls him out to the site of a grisly murder. A glimpse from a security camera video suggests the killer might be a woman. Hiroshi quickly learns how close homicide and suicide can appear in a city full of high-speed trains just a step-or a push-away. Takamatsu drags Hiroshi out to the hostess clubs and skyscraper offices of Tokyo in search of the killer. Hiroshi goes deeper and deeper into Tokyo's intricate, perilous market for buying and selling the most expensive land in the world. He teams up with ex-sumo wrestler Sakaguchi to scour Tokyo's sacred temples, corporate offices and industrial wastelands to find out why one woman was driven to murder. After years in America and lost in neat, clean spreadsheets, Hiroshi confronts the stark realities of the biggest city in the world, where inside information can travel in a flash from the insiders at top investment firms to street-level punks and teenage hostesses, everyone scrambling for their cut of Tokyo's lucrative land deals. Hiroshi's determined to cut through Japan's ambiguities-and dangers-to find the murdering ex-hostess before she extracts her final revenge-which just might be him. More at: www.michaelpronko.com

Produktdetails

• Detective Hiroshi Nr.1
• Verlag: Raked Gravel Press
• Seitenzahl: 374
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 527g
• ISBN-13: 9781942410126
• ISBN-10: 1942410123
• Artikelnr.: 48663806

Autorenporträt

Michael Pronko is a Tokyo-based writer of murder, memoir and music. He's published four novels in the Detective Hiroshi series, and three books of short writings about Tokyo life.Michael grew up in Kansas City, studied philosophy at Brown University, and then traveled for years, teaching in Beijing, finishing an MA in Education and another in Comparative Literature before completing his PhD on film adaptations of Charles Dickens. As a professor of American Literature at Meiji Gakuin University, he teaches seminars on contemporary novels, film, and culture. Michael runs the website, Jazz in Japan, which covers the jazz scene in Tokyo. During his 20-plus years in Japan, he has written about Japanese culture, art, society and politics for Newsweek Japan, The Japan Times, and Artscape Japan. He has read his essays on NHK TV and done programs for Nippon Television based on his writings.