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 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 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 The Deafening Silence written by Amy Tasukada and published by Macarons & Tea Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unproven alliance. A broken promise. A mafia boss must shed blood to secure peace… Nao Murata is on the verge of brokering peace between his syndicate and the rival Mafufgumi mob. To seal the deal, he’ll need to pick up Russian prostitutes to appease his newest ally. When the exchange goes sour, both sides draw blades and Nao has no choice but to care for a blood-soaked enemy. If the man doesn’t make it through the night, Nao and his crew will pay with their lives. Outnumbered and stranded in enemy territory, Nao is forced to fight his way out before the Mafufgumi Godfather takes the deal off the table. As his wounded enemy’s heartbeat slows, Nao must act fast or condemn his syndicate to a brutal turf war. The Yakuza Path: The Deafening Silence is the fourth book in a series of Japanese mafia thrillers. If you like twisty action, authentic settings, and a touch of gay romance, then you’ll love Amy Tasukada’s pulse-pounding series. Buy The Deafening Silence to immerse yourself in a bloody mafia tale today!
Download or read book My Heart s Desire written by Amy Tasukada and published by . This book was released on 2023-04-06 with total page 0 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.
Download or read book Yakuza Sweet Revenge written by Angel Broady and published by Rose Angel Books. This book was released on 2015-06-14 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She flees from China, Yanshi to Edo where she is a stranger, fallen into a belief that she could bring peace and to know the truth about her bloodline. She meets an attractive young- man name Spider (Kyiomizu Rau) who she is willing to trust as part of a clan that falls into two world. The clan holds account in their own murders and assassinations of traitors, they say is the good of the clan. Read how a princess of Yanshi china becomes a ninja assassin of Iga Japan for an unknown clan she is drawn to trust in order to receive a fate of immortality.
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 Bushido Way a Sam Phillips Mystery written by M. Anthony Phillips and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: M. Anthony Phillips presents the debut of his hot new Private Detective series. Vietnam veteran Sam Phillips follows in the footsteps of his father into the world of private investigations. It’s the end of the Vietnam War in 1976 during the Fall of Siagon and a battle-worn Sam has just taken over his father’s company after his death. With his office above a seedy bar off Hollywood and Vine, Sam and his new assistant Constance Turner go weeks before they land their first case. With the help of his troubled friend Armstrong Jones—fresh out of prison for nearly killing two men, they are paid by an old friend Michelle Yamada of protecting her little brother Ken, a Yakuza gang member being hunted by a rival gang, the Yokohama Black Rebels who killed their father—a crime boss. Chasing Ken is the notorious boss Hiroshi Ito, a sadistic killer like no other who has killed nearly all the Yakuza bosses in Little Tokyo. In the meantime Sam finds out he’s the father of a five-year-old Amerasian kid from Vietnam—dropped off at his doorstep in the middle of the afternoon. In protecting Ken, people close to Sam are getting killed off, including detective friends who are trying to capture Hiroshi for murder. When things start to not add up about Ken, Sam and Armstrong begin to wonder if they’re being played the fool. With the body count adding up and Hiroshi getting closer to his target, Sam and Armstrong must go on the offensive before it’s too late.
Download or read book What the Luck written by Brian Cramer and published by Brian Cramer Books. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill Brabham, a recently divorced and unemployed financial manager from Texas, is a man down on his luck. With nothing left to lose except possibly a few years of his life, he takes a high-risk, high-reward job cleaning up at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. While in Japan, his luck drastically changes, and everything starts to go right for him. Unfortunately, his new-found luck seems to be coming at the expense of those around him. His investigation into this phenomenon puts him in the middle of a dangerous criminal conspiracy where he must contend with everything from the Yakuza to a sassy teenage girl with a penchant for role-playing.
Download or read book Slavery Inc written by Lydia Cacho and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2014-04-21 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illegal, inhuman, and impervious to recession, there is one trade that continues to thrive, just out of sight. The international sex trade criss-crosses the entire globe, a sinister network made up of criminal masterminds, local handlers, corrupt policemen, willfully blind politicians, eager consumers, and countless hapless women and children. In this ground-breaking work of investigative reporting, the celebrated journalist Lydia Cacho follows the trail of the traffickers and their victims from Mexico to Turkey, Thailand to Iraq, Georgia to the UK, to expose the trade's hidden links with the tourist industry, internet pornography, drugs and arms smuggling, the selling of body organs, money laundering, and even terrorism. This is an underground economy in which a sex slave can be bought for the price of a gun, but Cacho's powerful first-person interviews with mafiosi, pimps, prostitutes, and those who managed to escape from captivity makes it impossible to ignore the terrible human cost of this lucrative exchange. Shocking and sobering, Slavery Inc, is an exceptional book, both for the colossal scope of its enquiry, and for the tenacious bravery with which Cacho pursues the truth.
Download or read book Tokyo Vice written by Jake Adelstein and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW A MAX ORIGINAL SERIES. A riveting true-life tale of newspaper noir and Japanese organized crime from an American investigative journalist who "pulls the curtain back on ... [an] element of Japanese society that few Westerners ever see" (San Francisco Examiner). Jake Adelstein is the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police Press Club, where for twelve years he covered the dark side of Japan: extortion, murder, human trafficking, fiscal corruption, and of course, the yakuza. But when his final scoop exposed a scandal that reverberated all the way from the neon soaked streets of Tokyo to the polished Halls of the FBI and resulted in a death threat for him and his family, Adelstein decided to step down. Then, he fought back. In Tokyo Vice he delivers an unprecedented look at Japanese culture and searing memoir about his rise from cub reporter to seasoned journalist with a price on his head.
Download or read book Yashakiden Vol 1 written by Hideyuki Kikuchi and published by Digital Manga, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-01-13 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful manhunter Setsura Aki has seen strange and even dangerous creatures in Demon City Shinjuku. The ravaged city living on borrowed time at the edge of a black hole is a place where sin and debauchery can be found around every corner. But nothing prepared him for the arrival of them. Four Chinese vampires – frighteningly evil, ancient and deadly. They have waited centuries for the perfect moment to enter the only city suited to them...Shinjuku. Led by the breathtakingly beautiful – female vampire known only as Princess, they begin claiming victims in the haunted city, using every sensual and sadistic means at their disposal. What could be their ultimate aim? Setura Aki, Shinjuku’s No. 1 private eye, along with enigmatic Doctor Mephisto, must stop Princess and her three followers before Demon City falls under their spell forever. Can these two men unravel the mystery and use their own extraordinary paranormal talents to stop this ultimate evil? Or will they be destroyed by unfathomable powers greater than any they could have imagined? From the acclaimed Japanese horror writer Hideyuki Kikuchi (Vampire Hunter D, The Wicked City series) comes his next big novel series for the English audience; Yashakiden: The Demon Princess. With over two million copies sold in Japan and set in the popular Wicked City universe, this four-volume series is not to be missed by followers of Kikuchi’s works as well as fans of horror and the macabre.
Download or read book Fool Me Twice at Christmas written by Camilla Isley and published by Pink Bloom Press. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are two types of relationships: fake and real. Chuck and Kate’s used to be real, oh-so-real. But after she broke his heart four months ago, leaving him, it became all just pretense for the sake of their entwined families. With parents who are best friends and business partners, it’s not easy for Chuck and Kate to announce they’ve split up. But with the holidays looming over them, they can no longer keep pretending. Chuck and Kate head home for Christmas, determined to tell the truth—and end up accidentally engaged instead. The more they try to pull apart, the more the Universe seems to push them back together, shortening the road to the altar. And when just-for-show kisses stir up forgotten feelings, things get even more complicated. Now, with the midnight hour approaching, will Chuck and Kate’s relationship turn out to be real or fake?
Download or read book Kings of the Underworld Complete Series written by Nikita Slater and published by Nikita Slater Writing Services Ltd.. This book was released on 2023-03-24 with total page 2062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of eight dark romance novels by USA Today Bestselling Author Nikita Slater. Billionaire's Captive Mistress Billionaire businessman Tyson King always gets what he wants. Nothing will stop him from taking and keeping the woman who has obsessed him, until her past threatens their love. Mafia's Savage Vendetta Mob boss Vladimir Sitnikov will play a dangerous game in order to capture the fiery detective, Jane McKinley. When she is hurt, he will burn the city around them until he finds his enemy. Mercenary's Dark Obsession When ex-mercenary Daniel becomes obsessed with a blind musician who lives in his building, nothing will stop him from infiltrating every aspect of her life. Bratva's Captive Assassin Exiled from Russia for more than a decade with a bounty on his head, Boris Grekov must now reclaim his birthright. When a beautiful assassin comes for him, nothing will stop him from taking both the woman and his throne. Bounty Hunter's Innocent Prize Burned out bounty hunter, Mack Hudson, meets innocent Lucy Miller and his lonely existence explodes out of control. When she’s hurt, nothing will stop him from making her kidnappers pay. Italian's Captive Beauty Maria is running from her past. Unfortunately, she runs straight into Italian mob boss, Nic DeLuca, who wants revenge. Soon, revenge will turn to obsession, which turns to love. But will the past come back to haunt them? Bodyguard's Forbidden Obsession After a lifetime without choice, Cass embarks on a journey of self-discovery where she learns to love and value herself as more than a mafia asset. Will love dictate her heart, or will she take the path laid out for her from birth? Mafia's Savage Boss When enemies close in, Vladimir and Jane Sitnikov must rely on old friends to help them. Warning: These books contain scenes of violence and sexuality, please read with caution. 18+
Download or read book Fools and Jesters in Literature Art and History written by Vicki K. Janik and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1998-05-21 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesters and fools have existed as important and consistent figures in nearly all cultures. Sometimes referred to as clowns, they are typological characters who have conventional roles in the arts, often using nonsense to subvert existing order. But fools are also a part of social and religious history, and they frequently play key roles in the rituals that support and shape a society's system of beliefs. This reference book includes alphabetically arranged entries for approximately 60 fools and jesters from a wide range of cultures. Included are entries for performers from American popular culture, such as Woody Allen, Mae West, Charlie Chaplin, and the Marx Brothers; literary characters, such as Shakespeare's Falstaff, Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel, and Singer's Gimpel; and cultural and mythological figures, such as India's Birbal, the American circus clown, the Native American Coyote, Taishu Engeki of Japan, Hephaestus, Loki the Norse fool, schlimiels and schlimazels, and the drag queen. The entries, written by expert contributors, are critical as well as informative. Each begins with a biographical, artistic, religious, or historical background section, which places the subject within a larger cultural and historical context. A description and analysis follow. This section may include a discussion of the fool's appearance, gender role, ethical and moral roles, social function, and relationship to such themes as nature, time, and mortality. The entry then discusses the critical reception of the subject and concludes with an extensive bibliography of general works.
Download or read book Fear the Shadow written by Michael Wayne and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young woman discovers a sinister plot involving her parents who were part of a secret counterterrorist group. After trekking and finding the cabin of the father she never knew, she discovers a hidden object, the visor worn by her dad. She tries it on, with her DNA paired with her father's inside the visor. She is now imprinted with his ninja commando skills and memories. Unable to control these possessions, she must find her father's brother-turned-enemy to be trained in the way of the ninja to learn and be in control before it destroys others or herself. After she becomes part of the clan, she is now faced with an enemy her parents and others fought against three decades ago. They invade once again, but this time, they are joined by an outworld civilization that is hell-bent on enslaving and destroying her world. It is a race against time to combat this new enemy. Thought to be dead or out of commission, old members of the former elite terrorist unit must reunite and join this woman if they are to survive.
Download or read book Zach Tragic in Forgotten Tokyo written by M. David Scoble and published by Moogi and Wil Books, LLC. This book was released on 2020-09-05 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summer in the near-future city of Forgotten Tokyo is rough for Zach 'Tragic' Lejeune. People are out to frame him for murder, kill him for business, and generally bring hurt to his doorstep. Unfortunately for them, Zach Tragic is also a corollary to Murphy's Law: things that can go wrong, go wrong around Zach. Can the troubled troubleshooter avoid the vengeful lawyers, illegal guns, and mysterious circumstances of his everyday life in Forgotten Tokyo?
