Ebook {Epub PDF} Japantown by Barry Lancet

JAPANTOWN, the first Brodie adventure, won the Barry Award for Best First Novel, Barry Lancet is the author of the award-winning international suspense series featuring Jim Brodie/5. Barry Lancet Synopsis: Japantown is a Jim Brodie novel by Barry Lancet. An American antiques-dealer-turned-reluctant-private-eye must use his knowledge of Japanese culture to unravel a major murder in San Francisco—before he and his daughter become targets themselves. Barry Lancet is a Barry Award­–winning author and finalist for the Shamus Award. He has lived in Japan for more than twenty-five years. His former position as an editor at one of the nation’s largest publishers gave him access to the inner circles in traditional and business fields most outsiders are never granted, and an insider’s view that informs his writing/5().

"From gritty San Francisco to exotic Tokyo, Japantown is a whip-smart, razor-fast ride, and entertaining from cover to cover."-- Taylor Stevens, New York Times bestselling author of The Informationist "Get ready for an action-packed, tension-filled escape with Barry Lancet's thriller worthy of Elmore Leonard. "Lancet has a gift for pacing and keeps the reader engaged and guessing till the very end." —Library Journal "Japantown is an expertly written story with vivid, complex characters. The mystery holds surprises until the very end." —Larry Bond "Get ready for an action-packed, tension-filled escape with Barry Lancet's thriller worthy of Elmore. Barry Lancet is a Barry Award­-winning author and finalist for the Shamus Award. He has lived in Japan for more than twenty-five years. His former position as an editor at one of the nation's largest publishers gave him access to the inner circles in traditional and business fields most outsiders are never granted, and an insider's view.

Barry Lancet's début novel started with great promise of being a thriller that bridged the cultural gap between Japanese and American life. Unfortunately as the plot developed it became another overblown major conspiracy thriller where the hero and a few helpers took on well-organised baddies and managed to defeat them almost singlehanded. “In the Japanese bubble economy burst, but not before spawning Michael Crichton’s archetypal thriller Rising Sun, which looms large in the background of Japantown, author Barry Lancet’s first work of fiction. Lancet’s fluency in the Japanese language, extensive knowledge of, and empathy with, the culture from which it is inseparable, and gift for creating likable (as well as despicable) characters add depth and authenticity to this captivating thriller that other non-Japanese. JAPANTOWN, the first Brodie adventure, won the Barry Award for Best First Novel, Barry Lancet is the author of the award-winning international suspense series featuring Jim Brodie.