The Moving Blade (Detective Hiroshi)

In Tokyo, the past is present. And deadly. When the top American diplomat in Tokyo, Bernard Mattson, is killed, he leaves more than a lifetime of successful Japan-American negotiations. He leaves a missing manuscript, boxes of research, a lost keynote speech and a tangled web of relations. When his alluring daughter, Jamie, returns from America wanting answers, finding only threats, Detective Hiroshi Shimizu is dragged from the safe confines of his office into the street-level realities of Pacific Rim politics. A moving blade is hidden in the blur of motion, felt but not perceived. With help from ex-sumo wrestler Sakaguchi, Hiroshi searches for the killer from Tokyo’s back alley bars to government offices, through anti-nuke protests to the gates of an American naval base. When two more bodies turn up, Hiroshi must choose between desire and duty, violence or procedure, before the killer silences his next victim. * Selected for Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2018 * “Nail-biting!” US Review of Books * “A solid punch to the gut.” Chanticleer Reviews. * “One of the year’s best thrillers,” Best Thrillers. The Moving Blade is the second in the Detective Hiroshi series set deep in Tokyo