Download or read book Kill Me in Tokyo written by Earl Norman and published by Fiction Hunter Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The murdered man had left a message: "Find Mitsuko." Burns Bannion, private eye by accident, wound up by finding several "Mitsukos"—each one more voluptuous and desirable than the last. Strippers, Strumpets, teasers—Burns chased them all down through the fleshpots of the Tokyo night. . . His search forces him to use his knowledge of the terrible defensive technique of the Japanese, Karate, where the human hand can be as deadly as an axe. As the chase closes in, Burns knows that only his own bare hands stand between him and the bloodiest death a man could suffer . . .
Download or read book Kafka on the Shore written by Haruki Murakami and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2006-01-03 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and one of the world’s greatest storytellers comes "an insistently metaphysical mind-bender” (The New Yorker) about a teenager on the run and an aging simpleton. Now with a new introduction by the author. Here we meet 15-year-old runaway Kafka Tamura and the elderly Nakata, who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their paths converge, acclaimed author Haruki Murakami enfolds readers in a world where cats talk, fish fall from the sky, and spirits slip out of their bodies to make love or commit murder, in what is a truly remarkable journey. “As powerful as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.... Reading Murakami ... is a striking experience in consciousness expansion.” —The Chicago Tribune
Download or read book Rain Fall written by Barry Eisler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Japanese-American assassin who specializes in "natural cause" killings finds his carefully ordered world coming under siege in the wake of a government official's murder, with which he has been falsely connected, a situation that is complicated by his attraction to the victim's daugher. Reprint.
Download or read book Kiruru Kill Me Vol 1 written by Yasuhiro Kano and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aoi Nemo has it made: He's brilliant, good-looking, and the heir to a gigantic pharmaceutical empire. The only thing missing in his life is love, and he's just fallen head over heels for a beautiful woman named Akaumi Kiruru. There's just one problem: Kiruru is a professional assassin! Desperate to see her again, Aoi Nemo puts a risky plan into action. To reunite with Kiruru, he puts out a hit...on himself!
Download or read book Tokyo Ueno Station National Book Award Winner written by Yu Miri and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's busiest train stations. Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Emperor, his life is tied by a series of coincidences to the Imperial family and has been shaped at every turn by modern Japanese history. But his life story is also marked by bad luck, and now, in death, he is unable to rest, doomed to haunt the park near Ueno Station in Tokyo. Kazu's life in the city began and ended in that park; he arrived there to work as a laborer in the preparations for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and ended his days living in the vast homeless village in the park, traumatized by the destruction of the 2011 tsunami and shattered by the announcement of the 2020 Olympics. Through Kazu's eyes, we see daily life in Tokyo buzz around him and learn the intimate details of his personal story, how loss and society's inequalities and constrictions spiraled towards this ghostly fate, with moments of beauty and grace just out of reach. A powerful masterwork from one of Japan's most brilliant outsider writers, Tokyo Ueno Station is a book for our times and a look into a marginalized existence in a shiny global megapolis.
Download or read book Tokyo Kill written by Barry Lancet and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Struggling San Francisco antiques dealer Jim Brodie is back in Japan. After wading through the tragedy of the Japantown murders, he and his daughter have returned for a well-earned vacation. Checking in at the P.I. firm he inherited from his father, he's startled by the arrival of an old World War II veteran and his son. The father has come explicitly to see Brodie, and offers up a dark story connected to the war and a pair of violent home invasions committed in the Japanese capital only days earlier. Brodie takes a liking to the old soldier and agrees to provide protection, one of the services Brodie Security supplies. An unexpected murder soon shocks Brodie and his crew, and Brodie begins a wild ride through the worlds of kendo, the Triads, war atrocities, the backstreets of Yokohama's unfathomable Chinatown, Chinese spies, and an elusive group of killers after a long-lost treasure with a murky and dangerous history. With the crusty PI Noda at his side, Brodie pokes around where he's not wanted, and when a friend is delivered up to him in pieces Brodie is once again running for his life--while seeking the answers he needs to save it"--
Download or read book Kiruru Kill Me Vol 4 written by Yasuhiro Kano and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aoi Nemo, the heir to a giant medical empire, has fallen head over heels for an assassin named Akaumi Kiruru. Obsessed with finding any way to see her again, he put out a hit on his own life, and now he looks forward to their deadly "dates" with delusional enthusiasm. Yet could it be that the killer femme fatale really is starting to develop feelings for her elusive target? When the two of them get embroiled in a tussle between the League of Assassins and a gang of hooligans, their game of love and death takes a heart-pounding new turn!
Download or read book Kiruru Kill Me Vol 3 written by Yasuhiro Kano and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the brilliant heir to a gigantic medical empire, Aoi Nemo had everything he could ever want...except love. The problem is that Kiru, the woman he fell for, is a deadly assassin! Desperate to see her again, Nemo puts out a hit on himself, and every attempt on his life is a "date" he wholeheartedly looks forward to. But Nemo's family has noticed that he's single, and they're determined to make him a proper match. The stage is set for over-the-top antics when Kiru crashes the matchmaking party with murderous intent!
Download or read book Kill Me in Yokohama written by Earl Norman and published by Fiction Hunter Press. This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burns Bannion is back—but things haven't changed a bit. Private eye by accident he still keeps running into his two favorite pastimes—gorgeous girls and deadly killers. . . The girls were all Bannion dreamed they would be, but the killers were bloodier than Bannion could have imagined. So he had to use an equally bloody weapon against them: The ancient and terrible defensive art of the Japanese—in which the human hand can be as deadly as the sharpest axe.
Download or read book Kiruru Kill Me Vol 2 written by Yasuhiro Kano and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aoi Nemo is the ultra-wealthy heir to a medical business empire, and he's fallen head over heels for a contract killer named Akaumi Kiruru. Desperate to find a way to see her again, Nemo went so far as to put a price on his own head. So far, he's managed to survive all their deadly "dates," and his crush has only intensified. But with such a big reward on the line, it's only a matter of time before more killers join the hunt!
Download or read book Kiruru Kill Me Vol 5 written by Yasuhiro Kano and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aoi Nemo, heir apparent to a gigantic pharmaceutical fortune, has fallen head over heels for the assassin Akaumi Kiruru. To spend more time with her, he took out an anonymous hit--on himself! Somehow, against all odds, his crazy dating strategy actually seems to be working. After a "date" at the beach, the two of them are growing closer and closer together. But when a major incident rocks the League of Assassins, their strange game of love and death faces all-new challenges!
Download or read book Kill Me in Shimbashi written by Earl Norman and published by Fiction Hunter Press. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PRIVATE EYE WITH BARE HANDS... Burns Bannion, private eye by accident, had to use his bare hands to defend himself against some of the bloodiest characters in all of crime-ridden Tokyo. Bannion was a master of Karate, the terrible defensive art of the Japanese, which makes Judo look like a kid's game. As usual, Bannion finds plenty of female company on his travels, among them: TONI-CHAN, the luscious young teenager, whose father kept a strange secret... TERUKO, the beautiful business girl next door who always kept her mind on Bannion...
Download or read book Killing Me Softly written by Charles Fox and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Fox has composed more than 100 motion picture and television scores, among them the themes of many iconic series, including Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Love, American Style, and Love Boat. In this memoir, Fox recounts his development as a musician, describing the cornerstone events of his musical and personal life. He reflects on the highlights of his career, working with some of the greatest names in entertainment, film, television, and records, including Jim Croce, Barry Manilow, Lena Horne, and Fred Astaire.
Download or read book My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life written by Rachel Cohn and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I'm here to take you to live with your father. In Tokyo, Japan! Happy birthday!" In the Land of the Rising Sun, where high culture meets high kitsch, and fashion and technology are at the forefront of the First World's future, the foreign-born teen elite attend ICS -- the International Collegiate School of Tokyo. Their accents are fluid. Their homes are ridiculously posh. Their sports games often involve a (private) plane trip to another country. They miss school because of jet lag and visa issues. When they get in trouble, they seek diplomatic immunity. Enter foster-kid-out-of-water Elle Zoellner, who, on her sixteenth birthday, discovers that her long-lost father, Kenji Takahara, is actually a Japanese hotel mogul and wants her to come live with him. Um, yes, please! Elle jets off first class from Washington, DC, to Tokyo, which seems like a dream come true. Until she meets her enigmatic father, her way-too-fab aunt, and her hyper-critical grandmother, who seems to wish Elle didn't exist. In an effort to please her new family, Elle falls in with the Ex-Brats, a troop of uber-cool international kids who spend money like it's air. But when she starts to crush on a boy named Ryuu, who's frozen out by the Brats and despised by her new family, her already tenuous living situation just might implode. My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life is about learning what it is to be a family, and finding the inner strength to be yourself, even in the most extreme circumstances.
Download or read book What s Left of Me Is Yours written by Stephanie Scott and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Each chapter of this enrapturing novel is elegantly brief and charged with barely contained emotion." --New York Times Book Review A gripping debut set in modern-day Tokyo and inspired by a true crime, for readers of Everything I Never Told You and The Perfect Nanny, What's Left of Me Is Yours charts a young woman's search for the truth about her mother's life--and her murder. In Japan, a covert industry has grown up around the "wakaresaseya" (literally "breaker-upper"), a person hired by one spouse to seduce the other in order to gain the advantage in divorce proceedings. When Satō hires Kaitarō, a wakaresaseya agent, to have an affair with his wife, Rina, he assumes it will be an easy case. But Satō has never truly understood Rina or her desires and Kaitarō's job is to do exactly that--until he does it too well. While Rina remains ignorant of the circumstances that brought them together, she and Kaitarō fall in a desperate, singular love, setting in motion a series of violent acts that will forever haunt her daughter's life. Told from alternating points of view and across the breathtaking landscapes of Japan, Stephanie Scott exquisitely renders the affair and its intricate repercussions. As Rina's daughter, Sumiko, fills in the gaps of her mother's story and her own memory, Scott probes the thorny psychological and moral grounds of the actions we take in the name of love, asking where we draw the line between passion and possession.
Download or read book Killing Commendatore written by Haruki Murakami and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art—from one of our greatest writers. • “Exhilarating ... magical.” —The Washington Post When a thirty-something portrait painter is abandoned by his wife, he secludes himself in the mountain home of a world famous artist. One day, the young painter hears a noise from the attic, and upon investigation, he discovers a previously unseen painting. By unearthing this hidden work of art, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances; and to close it, he must undertake a perilous journey into a netherworld that only Haruki Murakami could conjure.
Download or read book From Tokyo to Tiflis written by Fred Arthur McKenzie and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
