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Old 09-22-2014, 01:14 PM   #20818
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Originally Posted by astrangerhere View Post

Started reading Jake Adelstein's nonfiction Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan last night and am finding it very interesting so far.
If you find that you want more of Tokyo and it's underworld and enjoy an occasional fictional thriller/spy/hired assassin type of book, I suggest Barry Eisler's John Rain series. https://www.goodreads.com/author/sho...om_search=true

He seems quite proud of the level of research he does into actual Tokyo locations. Compared to other thriller type books I've read, he's more thoughtful with an interest in Japanese culture, self defense, assassin psychology and creative ways to make a murder look like a natural death.

I suppose I should justify sticking my nose into this tread by reporting that I just finished The Detachment (John Rain) by Barry Eisler and am now reading The Battle of Kursk: Operation Citadel 1943 by Robin Cross.
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