Japan Thriller

Ren Ishida is nearly finished with graduate school when he receives news of his sister Keiko's sudden death. She was viciously stabbed one rainy night on her way home, and there are no leads. Ren heads to Akakawa to conclude his sister's affairs, still failing to understand why she chose to abandon the family and Tokyo for this desolate town years ago. Haunted in his dreams by a young girl who is desperately trying to tell him something, Ren struggles to find solace in the void his sister has left behind.

Satoshi looks like an innocent schoolboy but he is really a viciously cunning psychopath. Kimura's young son is in a coma thanks to him, and Kimura has tracked him onto the bullet train heading from Tokyo to Morioka to exact his revenge. But Kimura soon discovers that they are not the only dangerous passengers onboard.

In the shadows of war, one secret could ignite a global firestorm. When a CIA operative is brutally murdered in the rugged hills of Afghanistan, a mysterious thumb drive—loaded with explosive compromising intelligence—vanishes into the wind. Now it's more than a missing file; it's a ticking time bomb. Enter Cade Mercer, a disillusioned ex-CIA agent pulled back into a deadly game he thought he left behind. From the neon-lit backstreets of Tokyo to its elite hostess clubs, Cade must navigate a web of old enemies, past loves and erotic encounters to ensure the woman he loves is not sold ...

In the wake of a terrifying earthquake, Sano Ichiro races to solve a crime that could bring down the shogun's regime. When a massive earthquake devastates Japan in 1703, even the shogun's carefully regulated court is left teetering on the brink of chaos. This is no time for a murder investigation - except when a nobleman's daughters are found dead from incense poisoning and their father threatens to topple the regime unless Sano Ichiro tracks down the killer.

'The most controversial and sensational novel of the last twenty years.' Here is a thriller that has factual research, artistic mood, and literary polish - for the intellectuals ; as well as action, suspense, and an original story - to give honey to the bears. Its issues are also of great topical importance ; and so this good old-fashioned tale has a universal appeal for now. The book's fictional story is about Japan's undercover operations to abduct young children of Japanese-Western marriages, in order to create a live gene-pool. These children are needed as potential ...

"Having fallen to the many mistakes she made in Nirasaki, Makai Akira now finds herself living a mundane life in Tokyo, devoid of any meaning. She now struggles to survive each night in Shinjuku as a hostess in dead-end clubs, surrounded by questionable guests and cruel bosses. However, this boring life quickly changes once she crosses paths with a man, Aoyama Ryusuke. On the surface, she sees him as a wealthy businessman, though she soon discovers that there's more to him than meets the eye. Making what could be the worst mistake of her life, Akira insists that Aoyama allow her to work for...

Japan, 1869. A time of reform and rebellion. Detectives Kazuki and Kawaji are assigned to investigate a series of seemingly impossible murders. Together with the help of a mysterious shrine maiden, can they solve each gruesome death and piece together the dark connection between them?

Modern Day Samurai continues The Consortium Series, as the action moves to Japan. It contains the ending to Somnolent Chameleon - Book 1: Sleepy, where her vengeance remains unsatisfied, as she continues to hunt for members of the U.S. Government sanctioned Wet Work team that killed a child of the Old Ones in the Amazon jungles. The Comfort Women story still remains unresolved today, as sexual atrocities common decades ago are filtered through history as one of the most demeaning and destructive uses of women's bodies during wartime. New information thought buried has emerged through time, ...

Japan, 1703. On a snowy night, 47 warriors murder the man at the center of the scandal that turned them from samurai into masterless ronin two years before. Clearly this was an act of revenge—but why did they wait so long? And is there any reason they should not immediately be ordered to commit ritual suicide? Sano Ichiro, demoted from Chamberlain to his old post as Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People, has mere days to solve the greatest mystery of samurai legend—while his own fortunes hang in the balance.

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1985. Kazumasa Yuuki, a seasoned reporter at the North Kanto Times, runs a daily gauntlet of the power struggles and office politics that plague its newsroom. But when an air disaster of unprecedented scale occurs on the paper’s doorstep, its staff is united by an unimaginable horror and a once-in-a-lifetime scoop. Seventeen years later, Yuuki remembers the adrenaline-fueled, emotionally charged seven days that changed his and his colleagues’ lives. He does so while making good on a promise he made that fateful week.

Japan, March 1700. The strife between Sano Ichir-o, the samurai detective who has risen to power in the shogun's court, and his enemies has escalated to the brink of war. Called away from the crisis by the shogun's orders to investigate a mysterious skeleton, Sano and his wife, Reiko, must confront dangerous, long-buried secrets. What was Sano's own mother doing on the night when a burning kimono ignited a blaze that nearly destroyed the city?

"After avoiding accusations of murder, life for Makai Akira had become everything she’d ever wanted; Daily routines, friends to hang out with, not to mention a loving girlfriend. With the school semester coming to a close and the New Year just around the corner, Akira took it upon herself to introduce a new challenge to her life, work. Taking up a job in the kitchen of a local restaurant, Akira soon finds herself surrounded by many unique individuals, two of whom stand out from the rest. Ketsueki Mao, a server who’s polite and beloved by all, and her jerk of a coworker, Kobayashi Eishi,...

Japan, 1701. A woman is brutally attacked within a bamboo prison as clouds swirl around her head. Meanwhile, at Edo Castle, samurai detective turned chamberlain Sano Ichiro is suspicious of his old rival, Yanagisawa, who has been oddly cooperative since returning from exile.

Japan, 1704. In an elegant mansion a young woman named Tsuruhime lies on her deathbed. The death of the Shogun's daughter has immediate consequences on his regime. Faced with his own mortality and beset by troubles, he names as his heir Yoshisato, the seventeen-year-old son he only recently discovered was his. Until five months ago, Yoshisato was raised as the illegitimate son of Yanagisawa, the shogun's favorite advisor. Yanagisawa is also the longtime enemy of Sano Ichiro.

Colonel Liston is a murder mystery set in California and Washington D.C. during the tumultuous years leading up to World War II. This thrilling tale dives into the heart of pre-war espionage and political intrigue. Colonel Liston is deeply troubled by Japan's intentions in the Pacific, believing that their expansionist ambitions threaten America's interests. His warnings fall on deaf ears, but the real action begins when Joseph Handel, a man with a shadowy past, boards a train bound for Washington. Along the way, he encounters a series of mysterious characters, including the fiery Doug ...

Tamara Duffy spots her former boyfriend on the steps leading down to a crowded Tokyo subway station. The 29-year-old American follows him into a train packed with morning commuters. Aum Shinrikyo member Siha walks down the steps of the station wearing a surgical mask and gloves, carrying a clear plastic umbrella in one hand and two bags of nerve gas in the other. Inspector Shin Nomura, sitting at his desk at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, knows something bad is about to happen, but is powerless to stop it. It’s March 20, 1995, and their lives are about to change forever. “...

Newly reinstated to the homicide division and transferred to a precinct in Tokyo, Inspector Iwata is facing superiors who don't want him there and is assigned a recalcitrant partner, Noriko Sakai, who'd rather work with anyone else. After the previous detective working the case killed himself, Iwata and Sakai are assigned to investigate the slaughter of an entire family, a brutal murder with no clear motive or killer.

For months during 1943 there was no night in Hellfire Pass. By the light of flares, carbide lamps and bamboo fires, men near-naked and skeletal cut a passage through stone to make way for a railway. Among these men were some of the 22,000 Australian soldiers taken prisoner by the Japanese during World War II. In camps across Asia and the Pacific, they struggled, died, and survived with a little help from their mates.

Under the guise of machinery for making dumplings, a Spanish factory near Barcelona is secretly producing a key component in the production of nuclear weapons. When information finds its way to the inboxes of Western intelligence agencies that this "dumpling maker" is meant for North Korea, orders go out that the shipment must be stopped. Either the machine must be disabled while still in the factory, or the transportation route must be discovered so the equipment can be intercepted before it reaches its destination.