Samurai Boogie - Softcover

Tasker, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0752836765 ISBN 13: 9780752836768

Publisher: Orion mass market paperback, 2001

Synopsis

Kazuo Mori, PI, is struggling to make ends meet. When he falls in with a prostitute called Angel he is soon struggling for survival in a vicious game that has the Yakuza and Japan's two major computer game makers as players. And on top of everything else, there is the rival agency that's just set up and is undercutting him on every job. The only thing to do is set up in partnership with the eager young student who is taking is business. And it's an arrangement with some unexpected bonuses.

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Review

P.I. Kazuo Mori returns in Samurai Boogie, a mean, edgy thriller neatly rolled in the dark recesses of Tokyo's underworld. Times are tough for Mori-san: a slick, modern detective agency is marching in on his home turf, leaving the cynical P.I. desperate enough to pray to the gods for work. His answer comes in the form of Angel, a hot- headed, stiletto-stomping stripper trying to wriggle free from the vice-like grip of a Yakuza (mafia) thug, George the Wolf Nishio.

Just when he thinks his hands are full, Mori gets a mysterious call from the owner of a swanky Ginza nightclub and mistress to a senior bureaucrat at the Ministry of Health, Masao Miura. It seems that Miura died from "karoshi" or work exhaustion, but his lover isn't convinced. She thinks it was murder and the Mrs. was in on it. Enticed by the lucrative pay a murder investigation reaps, Mori takes the case--all the while, protecting Angel and warding off the brutish Nishio. Fun, fast and raw, Samurai Boogie thrills like Pokeman, satisfies like a sashimi platter and moves like a Ninja warrior: "Like a bee-sting on the balls! The ugly one spins round, spitting fury. Mori seizes the moment, uses it--front foot lashing fast and high. Wolf takes the impact just under the heart, goes staggering backwards, arms wheeling. The gun goes off, a blast at the moon." --Rebekah Warren

From the Publisher

great reviews for SAMURAI BOOGIE
'The Japanese have a saying, "If it stinks, put a lid on it it." In SAMURAI BOOGIE , Peter Tasker takes a firm grip on that lid and wrenches it off with glee. An original thriller - tough, sexy and fast-paced. For its vigorous pace, the stark authenticity of its setting and its exhilarating immediacy, SAMURAI BOOGIE is outstanding' THE TIMES

'Cyberpunk guru William Gibson has always known that Japan is the coolest place to set a thriller, but no one else has really caught on. Former finance analyst Peter Tasker should change all that, by transferring a hard boiled American Private-eye mystery to the rain-soaked neon streets of 90s Tokyo. Tasker has created a living breathing setting with the otherworldliness of an SF novel . . . Stylish, original and pacier than a shinkansen bullet train. This is Manga Elmore Leonard.' THE MIRROR

Edition details

• Publisher: Orion mass market paperback
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0752836765
• ISBN 13: 9780752836768
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368