Download or read book The Yakuza Path Better Than Suicide written by Amy Tasukada and published by Macarons & Tea Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2017 Rainbow Award honorable mention "A wonderful tale of lust, love, and the Japanese culture" A bag of drugs. A twisted cop. A mob on the verge of self-destruction… Nao Murata is the new Godfather of the Matsukawa syndicate. When Detective Yamada confronts Nao over a dead drug dealer, the Nao knows his organization isn’t responsible. The Matsukawa doesn’t deal drugs… or does it? When Nao discovers drugs in a locker owned by his syndicate, he no longer knows who to trust. With the police bearing down on the Matsukawa, Nao must make unlikely allies to find out the truth. Can he discover who is betraying him before time runs out, or will everyone suffer for a crime he didn’t commit? Better Than Suicide is the second book in a Japanese mafia thriller series. If you like complex plots, gripping suspense, and splash of gay romance, then you’ll love the next installment in Amy Tasukada’s Yakuza Path series. Buy Better Than Suicide to start the race against the clock today!
Download or read book The Yakuza Path written by Amy Tasukada and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you buy the paperback, you'll get the ebook for FREE! A bag of drugs. A twisted cop. A mob on the verge of self-destruction... Nao Murata is the new Godfather of the Matsukawa syndicate. When Detective Yamada confronts Nao over a dead drug dealer, the Nao knows his organization isn't responsible. The Matsukawa doesn't deal drugs... or does it? When Nao discovers drugs in a locker owned by his syndicate, he no longer knows who to trust. With the police bearing down on the Matsukawa, Nao must make unlikely allies to find out the truth. Can he discover who is betraying him before time runs out, or will everyone suffer for a crime he didn't commit? Better Than Suicide is the second book in a Japanese mafia thriller series. If you like complex plots, gripping suspense, and splash of gay romance, then you'll love the next installment in Amy Tasukada's Yakuza Path series. Buy Better Than Suicide to start the race against the clock today!
Download or read book The Yakuza Path Wrapped in Screams written by Amy Tasukada and published by Macarons & Tea Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gunshot. A bloody note. And a relationship that might not survive… Now that the war with the Korean syndicate is behind him, all Nao Murata wants is a vacation and a chance to nurture his new relationship with Aki Hisona. They can punish those who abandoned the family later. After six weeks trapped in a hospital bed, a quiet vacation is the last thing Aki wants. Ready to prove himself to Nao and the rest of the family, Aki’s desperate for some action. And not just the yakuza kind… When Aki hears a gunshot, he knows the dust has far from settled. Nao says it can wait, but Aki’s unable to understand why they can’t tie up those loose ends. Between Aki’s constant pushing and Nao’s uncompromising focus on what he thinks is best for them both, are they too stubborn for their fragile relationship to last? Find out in The Yakuza Path: Wrapped in Screams, the sixth installment of The Yakuza Path thriller series. If you like gritty Japanese crime, complex characters, and a high dose of gay romance, then you’ll love Amy Tasukada’s latest novel. Buy Wrapped in Screams to get your taste of romantic revenge today!
Download or read book The Yakuza Path Box Set 1 4 written by Amy Tasukada and published by Macarons & Tea Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 1357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kyoto—beautiful, tragic, and for Nao Murata—deadly. Nao Murata never anticipated stumbling upon a stranger on the brink of death would thrust him back into a world he’d long ago left in his past. Now, he’s back among the ranks of the Yakuza, fighting for both his life and his honor. Struggling against older members undermining him at every turn, Nao must navigate the dark and gritty criminal underworld discovering who he can trust, and who is hell-bent on betraying him. Aki Hisona jumped to the top ranks of the syndicate when he gained favor with Nao, but it left animosity brewing among his would-be friends. When an assassination attempt disguised as a celebration leaves Aki with blood on his hands, he isn’t certain how Nao will react. Will he lose his rank, his life? Or worse…he might lose the chance to ever have Nao return his affection. All the while, the Korean mafia are deadlier than ever. Having ruthlessly killed the Godfather of the Matsukawa syndicate once, they’re now determined to murder the newest in line. Nao may have survived them once. They won’t let him out of their sights again. Discover how much blood is hiding underneath Kyoto's cherry blossoms in this shocking and brilliant four-book box set today!
Download or read book The Yakuza Path Blood Stained Tea written by Amy Tasukada and published by Macarons & Tea Publishing. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2017 Rainbow Award honorable mention A bloody past haunts him. A devastating present calls him back… Nao hides from his violent past in the Japanese mob by opening a teahouse in Japan's cultural center, Kyoto. His past comes flooding back when he discovers a gravely injured man with a tattooed chest, a bloody knife, and a Korean business card. Saehyun would've died if not for Nao's help. He knows nothing of his savior's connection with the local mafia, but Saehyun has his own secrets. He commands the Korean mafia, the mortal enemy of Nao’s former syndicate. As Nao and Saehyun grow closer, so does the strength of the Korean mob. A shocking murder pulls Nao back into a past he'd all but abandoned. War is looming, and Nao must choose between protecting Saehyun or avenging the honor of his old mafia family.. The Yakuza Path: Blood Stained Tea is the first book in a series of Japanese mafia thrillers. If you like complex characters, blood-soaked violence, and twists you won't see coming, then you'll love Amy Tasukada's gritty crime masterpiece. Buy Blood Stained Tea to dive deep into the Asian mafia tale today!
Download or read book The Yakuza Path Flowers of written by Amy Tasukada and published by Macarons & Tea Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A killer. A traitor. A deadly war that could take their love and their lives… Ruling the Kyoto yakuza makes Nao Murata a perpetual target, especially with the Koreans encroaching into their territory. An attempt on his life at his mafia headquarters crosses a line. Setting up his beloved ally Aki as the would-be assassin crosses another. Nao knows the only way to save his friend’s life is to sever their growing bond and force Aki to fake his own death… But Aki Hisona refuses to stay dead. Determined to expose Nao's would-be killer and save the man he loves, Aki goes deep undercover in the Korean underworld. But when he's asked to prove his loyalty, he risks becoming caught in a web of his own lies… With Aki gone and the Kyoto mafia in grave danger, Nao fears his trust in others could be fatal. Will Nao and Aki find the traitor in time, or will Nao's rule end in bloody chaos? The Yakuza Path: Flowers of Flesh and Blood is the powerful fifth installment of The Yakuza Path thriller series. If you like gritty Japanese crime, richly-nuanced characters, and slow-burning gay romance, then you’ll love Amy Tasukada’s high-octane novel. Buy Flowers of Flesh and Blood to slice into the Japanese underworld today!
Download or read book Pachinko National Book Award Finalist written by Min Jin Lee and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and National Book Award finalist, Pachinko is an "extraordinary epic" of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan (San Francisco Chronicle). NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017 * A USA TODAY TOP TEN OF 2017 * JULY PICK FOR THE PBS NEWSHOUR-NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB NOW READ THIS * FINALIST FOR THE 2018DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE* WINNER OF THE MEDICI BOOK CLUB PRIZE Roxane Gay's Favorite Book of 2017, Washington Post NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER * USA TODAY BESTSELLER * WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER * WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER "There could only be a few winners, and a lot of losers. And yet we played on, because we had hope that we might be the lucky ones." In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant--and that her lover is married--she refuses to be bought. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan. But her decision to abandon her home, and to reject her son's powerful father, sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the generations. Richly told and profoundly moving, Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. From bustling street markets to the halls of Japan's finest universities to the pachinko parlors of the criminal underworld, Lee's complex and passionate characters--strong, stubborn women, devoted sisters and sons, fathers shaken by moral crisis--survive and thrive against the indifferent arc of history. *Includes reading group guide*
Download or read book Dead Mount Death Play Chapter 7 written by Ryohgo Narita and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polka gets to know Detective Kosaburo Arase who seems to have some unpleasant history with Kuruya... Read the latest chapter of Dead Mount Death Play the same day it's released in Japan!
Download or read book Till death do us part written by Pierre Arnaud and published by Per Arne Markussen. This book was released on 2024-07-22 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Tore's search for family and belonging, he experiences a heartbreaking and brutal everyday life behind a veil that slowly is being pulled aside as he ventures out into a deceptive world to protect himself and maintain some dignity. Friendship and marriage endures crushing tolls as they are tested time and time again. Where others may find an easy trail to follow, Tore feels his path seems to be made as he walks it. Hammer meets mantle in the trials he faces on his long and winding road.
Download or read book The Paths of Zatoichi written by Jonathan Wroot and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Paths of Zatoichi charts the history and influence of the Japanese film and television franchise about Zatoichi the blind swordsman. The franchise is comprised of 29 films and 100 TV episodes (starring the famous Shintaro Katsu, who starred in 26 of the 29 feature films). They all follow the adventures of a blind masseur in medieval Japan, who wanders from village to village and often has to defend himself with his deadly sword skills. The first film was released in 1962 and the most recent in 2010. These dates demonstrate how the franchise can be used as a means of charting Japanese cinema history, via the shifts in production practices and audience preferences which affected the Zatoichi series and numerous other film and TV texts. Zatoichi signifies a huge area of Japanese film history which has largely been ignored in much existing scholarly research, and yet it can reveal much about the appeal of long-running characters, franchises, and their constant adaptation and influence within global popular culture.
Download or read book Kabuki cho Cabaret written by Ian McKinley and published by Fiction4All and 4Play Press. This book was released on 2024-08-29 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective Jim Holmes moved from the London Met to Tokyo in order to widen his experience, working with the fabled Chief Inspector Stella Koide. This turns out to be much more than he bargained for, when the murder of a Kabuki-cho prostitute leads to identification of a series of sadistic murders far beyond his worst nightmares. Attacks on the detectives expose links to the yakuza and also members of an exotic nightclub that caters for the more exotic sexual tastes of the ultra-rich. The team's uncanny ability to solve cryptic clues reveals deeper layers of an international conspiracy, with links to illegal human genetic engineering and corporate espionage run from the other side of the world. To expose the secret manipulator behind this labyrinthine plot will require direct confrontation on his home ground. As the risks to the detectives increase, Koide�s high-tech tools and Holmes' understanding of the character of their foe must be combined, not only to crack the case, but also to keep them alive long enough to do so.
Download or read book The Setup written by Michael Terry and published by Michael Terry. This book was released on 2017-11-25 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What I write in this book is an expose of NSA and CIA spy operations. Read how a UBS employee got caught up in an expose of NSA domestic spying that led to either riches or jail. Tells the story of being mistaken for a CIA agent. After getting mistaken for a rogue CIA agent, he got setup, and nearly killed but escaped the spy and police dragnet. Alarmed at offers of $200,000 per year and not wanting to accept the offers for fear of them being another setup, he ignored, ""An offer he couldn't refuse."" When he turned down double the last offer, he got sent home in California by the U.S. Embassy. Another UBS employee Christopher Meilli exposed theft of Holocaust survivors money and deposit records. In an interview with Oprah Winfrey, Mr. Meilli was asked about moneylaundering in the belief he was me and that I had flown from Tokyo to Zurich and infiltrated UBS security to get the goods on them. Check out the memoir that got used by a 20th Century Fox production that won award and millions.
Download or read book Death in Paradise written by J.E. Trent and published by Walua House Publishing . This book was released on 2018-03-17 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They say blood is thicker than water, but for Jessica Kealoha, blood has only brought war to paradise. When her father dies in an alleged plane accident, the LA detective returns home to the islands to find his pristine Hawaiian resort under siege. On one front, the Chinese Triads plot to demolish her family's land to erect a casino empire. And her own long-estranged relatives, leaders of the ruthless Japanese Yakuza, have come out swinging in a gang war that has turned the white sands of paradise blood red. As the bullets fly and bodies drop, Jessica discovers the ugly truth - her father was murdered. With the Chinese mob intent on forcing Jessica to sell her father’s resort by any means necessary, she comes face to face with the family she left behind so long ago. Now her only allies are killers with their own dark motives, locked in an escalating turf war that threatens to turn Hawaii into a gangster's paradise. To survive amidst the escalating chaos and exact justice for her murdered father, Jessica must navigate an impossible gauntlet, walking the knife's edge between cop and killer as this island idyll becomes a battleground. Is there no safe harbor left for her, or for the soul of Hawaii, amidst the spreading DEATH IN PARADISE? Infused with the rich culture of Hawaii and the nuanced shades of gray that color its criminal underground, DEATH IN PARADISE is equal parts gripping crime drama and lush tropical noir. If you like complex heroines, diverse ensemble casts, and hard-boiled action against a unique backdrop, then grab a mai tai and submerge yourself in this electrifying page-turner today.
Download or read book Powerful Death written by alex Alexander and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: when you lost everything, how do you go on with life? when the whole world is colliding against you and your the one running from the world
Download or read book Milo ANGEL OF DEATH written by M.E. Fiend and published by mainbook Verlag. This book was released on 2018-07-09 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Milo – Angel of Death' takes readers along the fast-paced, enthralling story side by side with great characters. A book like a great Hollywood thriller – action-packed, brutal, sexy and yet profound. A German business consultant saves the life of a mysterious woman called Milo in San Francisco. She's an ex-member of the Yakuza. He's falling for her with the first kiss. To escape the demons of his father that haunt him he abandons his former life. Obsessed with Milo he follows her and endures her hard training methods. They become involved with members of the Yakuza, accepting a mission that leads them to Tokyo, where they stumble into an operation that threatens to open Pandora's box and unleash chaos onto the world ... 'Milo – Angel of Death' is based on a true story. With this book I'm not just writing down our experiences of the past few years but also hope to find the lost 'brother' who means everything to me.' – M.E. Fiend
Download or read book Mishima Aesthetic Terrorist written by Andrew Rankin and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Half a century after his shocking samurai-style suicide, Yukio Mishima (1925–1970) remains a deeply controversial figure. Though his writings and life-story continue to fascinate readers around the world, Mishima has often been scorned by scholars, who view him as a frivolous figure whose work expresses little more than his own morbid personality. In Mishima, Aesthetic Terrorist, Andrew Rankin sets out to challenge this perception by demonstrating the intelligence and seriousness of Mishima’s work and thought. Each chapter of the book examines one of the central ideas that Mishima develops in his writings: life as art, beauty as evil, culture as myth, eroticism as transgression, the artist as tragic hero, narcissism as the death drive. Along with fresh readings of major works of fiction such as The Temple of the Golden Pavilion and “Patriotism,” the book introduces less familiar works in different genres. Special prominence is given to Mishima’s essays, which contain some of his most brilliant writing. Mishima is concerned with such problems as the loss of certainties and absolute values that characterizes modernity, and the decline of strong identities in a world of increasing uniformity and globalization. In his cultural criticism Mishima makes an impassioned defense of free speech, and he rails against all forms of authoritarianism and censorship. Rankin reads Mishima’s artistic project, up to and including his spectacular death, as a single, sustained lyric, an aggressive piece of performance art unfolding in multiple media. For all his rebellious energies, Mishima’s work is suffused with a sense of ending—the end of art, the end of eroticism, the end of culture, the end of the world—and it is governed by a decadent aestheticism which holds that beautiful things radiate their most intense beauty on the cusp of their destruction. Erudite and authoritative, yet written in clear, accessible prose, Mishima, Aesthetic Terrorist is essential reading for all those who seek a deeper understanding of this radical and provocative figure.
Download or read book Beat Takeshi Vs Takeshi Kitano written by Kashō Abe and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume in Kaya's series examining the work of a new wave of Asian filmmakers who are reshaping contemporary cinema Called "the world's most original action auteur" by the Village Voice, Takeshi Kitano is already legendary in Japan, where he is known both for his inventive films and for his legendarily caustic alter ego, comedian Beat Takeshi. In the United States, his stylishly noir aesthetic has both influenced and been admired by such directors as Martin Scorcese and Quentin Tarantino. His emotionally intense yet lyrical films have won him worldwide acclaim and honors, including the Grand Prix for Hanabi [Fireworks] at the Venice Film Festival. Now, the long-awaited Beat Takeshi vs. Takeshi Kitano offers a collection of essays on the internationally acclaimed film director by Casio Abe. Despite his impact on contemporary cinema, very little critical work on Kitano's films exists in the United States. Abe's book, originally published in Japan, combines a detailed look at Kitano's filmography with an incisive critique of the consumerist culture which Kitano's films play against. It is also purportedly Kitano's favorite book on his own work. This translation of Abe's writings on Kitano has been updated with articles that discuss Kitano's most recent releases, up to and including Dolls (2002), as well as extensive appendices and footnotes. Abe is one of Japan's preeminent cultural critics, and his book gives a rare and insightful look into the workings of one of the largest media cultures in the world. This will be the first book devoted exclusively to Kitano's work to be published in the United States. Beat Takeshi vs. Takeshi Kitano is the first volume in Kaya's Wicked Radiance series, which examines the work of a new wave of Asian filmmakers who are reshaping contemporary cinema.
