Download or read book The Yakuza and the Widower Ch 2 written by OGAMI and published by Digital Entertainment株式会社. This book was released on 2024-03-25 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A yakuza member suddenly appears before him… Yoshihito is an ordinary office worker whose wife passed away due to misfortune. When he returns from her funeral, his intercom rings and a man who looks like a yakuza member shows himself. The man claims to work for a financing company, and he informs Yoshihito that his wife owes them a large sum of money. Flustered by the amount, Yoshihito can’t afford to pay it back right away, and the yakuza member offers him a surprising proposal: “I’ll buy you.” From that day forward, this yakuza member frequently shows up on Yoshihito's doorstep to claim his body. Contrary to his appearance, his hands are soft and tender when he touches Yoshihito…?
Download or read book The Yakuza and the Widower Ch 6 written by OGAMI and published by Digital Entertainment株式会社. This book was released on 2024-05-27 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A yakuza member suddenly appears before him… Yoshihito is an ordinary office worker whose wife passed away due to misfortune. When he returns from her funeral, his intercom rings and a man who looks like a yakuza member shows himself. The man claims to work for a financing company, and he informs Yoshihito that his wife owes them a large sum of money. Flustered by the amount, Yoshihito can’t afford to pay it back right away, and the yakuza member offers him a surprising proposal: “I’ll buy you.” From that day forward, this yakuza member frequently shows up on Yoshihito's doorstep to claim his body. Contrary to his appearance, his hands are soft and tender when he touches Yoshihito…?
Download or read book The Yakuza and the Widower Ch 3 written by OGAMI and published by Digital Entertainment株式会社. This book was released on 2024-03-25 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A yakuza member suddenly appears before him… Yoshihito is an ordinary office worker whose wife passed away due to misfortune. When he returns from her funeral, his intercom rings and a man who looks like a yakuza member shows himself. The man claims to work for a financing company, and he informs Yoshihito that his wife owes them a large sum of money. Flustered by the amount, Yoshihito can’t afford to pay it back right away, and the yakuza member offers him a surprising proposal: “I’ll buy you.” From that day forward, this yakuza member frequently shows up on Yoshihito's doorstep to claim his body. Contrary to his appearance, his hands are soft and tender when he touches Yoshihito…?
Download or read book The Yakuza and the Widower Ch 7 written by OGAMI and published by Digital Entertainment株式会社. This book was released on 2024-05-27 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A yakuza member suddenly appears before him… Yoshihito is an ordinary office worker whose wife passed away due to misfortune. When he returns from her funeral, his intercom rings and a man who looks like a yakuza member shows himself. The man claims to work for a financing company, and he informs Yoshihito that his wife owes them a large sum of money. Flustered by the amount, Yoshihito can’t afford to pay it back right away, and the yakuza member offers him a surprising proposal: “I’ll buy you.” From that day forward, this yakuza member frequently shows up on Yoshihito's doorstep to claim his body. Contrary to his appearance, his hands are soft and tender when he touches Yoshihito…?
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 Tyrant s Sweet New Wife written by Liang Chen and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because of someone else's framing, her peaceful life had plummeted. Her boyfriend betrayed her, her mother died, and she was given to a stranger by her uncle. That night, she thought that her life had collapsed from then on. However, she had coincidentally met the famous playboy Young Master Jing. She had married him. Even if her mother-in-law made things difficult for her, and her sister-in-law despised her, she would endure it for the sake of the children in her womb. However, she was framed once again, and was treated as an evil woman who swindled marriage for money! "Jing Shaofan, please sign this." She handed over a divorce agreement. From then on, she had nothing to do with this man. Until that day, when she put on her wedding dress once again, when he suddenly broke into the scene of the wedding ... Only now did she understand that there were some people that she was destined to never be able to avoid. ***
Download or read book Boss Wife 2 written by Mayu Sakurai and published by Kodansha America LLC. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mio, stuck with her father’s debt, finds herself at a dead-end when she runs into her first love, Yamato Kujo. She’s surprised when she learns that he’s become a lieutenant for the Yakuza, and he’s willing to take on her debt in exchange for her hand in marriage! The two begin to live together, and Mio finds herself wanting to know more and more about Yamato. It’s when Yamato invites Mio out on their very first date, that she learns about Yamato’s past...
Download or read book Organized Crime written by Antonio Nicaso and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to describe and demystify what makes criminal gangs so culturally powerful. It examines their codes of conduct, initiation rites, secret communications methods, origin myths, symbols, and the like that imbue the gangsters with the pride and nonchalance that goes hand in hand with their criminal activities. Mobsters are everywhere in the movies, on television, and on websites. Contemporary societies are clearly fascinated by them. Why is this so? What feature and constituents of organized criminal gangs make them so emotionally powerful—to themselves and others? These are the questions that have guided the writing of this textbook, which is intended as an introduction to organized crime from the angle of cultural analysis. Key topics include: • An historic overview of organized crime, including the social, economic, and cultural conditions that favour its development; • A review of the type of people who make up organized gangs and the activities in which they engage; • The symbols, rituals, codes and languages that characterize criminal institutions; • The relationship between organized crime and cybercrime; • The role of women in organized crime; • Drugs and narco-terrorism; • Media portrayals of organized crime. Organized Crime includes case studies and offers an accessible, interdisciplinary approach to the subject of organized crime. It is essential reading for students engaged with organized crime across criminology, sociology, anthropology and psychology.
Download or read book The Yakuza s Guide to Babysitting Vol 2 written by Tsukiya and published by Kaiten Books LLC. This book was released on 2021-07-23 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN UNLIKELY PAIR! On the surface, he's the babysitter for the boss's only daughter Yaeka, but Kirishima is really a member of the yakuza by trade. Thanks to Kirishima's persuasion, Yaeka finally resolves to visit her mother in the hospital, where she shares the feelings she's built up over the past three years. Join this unlikely pair as they make Valentine's chocolates with the gluttonous high school girl Ayumu, become reunited with Kirishima's own former babysitter, and even meeting Yaeka's first friend!
Download or read book Criminality and Business Strategy written by John Zinkin and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-10-03 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Criminality and Business Strategy: Similarities and Differences explores what can be learned from criminal organizations on four continents based on comparisons of their historical and cultural origins, chosen governance and power structures, and business models. It discusses how these contexts determined their applications of the principles and practice of effective, but amoral leadership, and whether these lessons can be applied to legitimate business enterprises. In this book John Zinkin and Chris Bennett argue that defining a "crime" is a contested issue and that criminality can be viewed as a spectrum, comprising a range of different types of crimes, the harms caused, and the variety of punishments involved. They discuss the critical role of the state in determining where criminality is perceived to sit on the crime continuum. The authors delve into how the state and organized crime are natural competitors, and how organized crime and legitimate businesses are subject to many of the same internal and external strategic considerations. They contend that the resulting similarities between criminality in organized criminal organizations and legitimate businesses are greater than the differences and that the differences are only in degree and not in kind. This thought-provoking study of criminality will be of immense interest to professionals, coaches, consultants, and academics interested in the techniques and ethics of leadership. The book is, in effect, the result of an intellectual journey of the authors from the ideas presented in their earlier book, The Principles and Practice of Effective Leadership, to the issues in this book discussing important, difficult, and contested subjects. The journey continues in their third book: The Challenge in Leading Ethical and Successful Organizations.
Download or read book The Yakuza s Bias 1 written by Teki Yatsuda and published by Kodansha USA. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A yakuza enforcer becomes the gang world's biggest K-pop stan in this cult comedy manga that went from webcomic to sleeper hit in Japan! Perfect for fans of Way of the Househusband, Phantom of the Idol, or Spy x Family. Ken Kanashiro is one of the top lieutenants in the feared yakuza outfit the Washio Clan. He lives his life by the code of the Japanese underworld, where nothing is more important than loyalty, and ties between soldiers and their aniki are sacred bonds. Ken's never had time for hobbies... until the boss's only daughter Megumi drags him to a K-pop concert, and he sees the glittering, charismatic Jun for the first time. Smitten like a new recruit on his first job, Ken plunges into fandom with the solemnity and passion only a true man who walks the way of the yakuza could muster.
Download or read book The Yakuza and the Widower Ch 5 written by OGAMI and published by Digital Entertainment株式会社. This book was released on 2024-03-25 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A yakuza member suddenly appears before him… Yoshihito is an ordinary office worker whose wife passed away due to misfortune. When he returns from her funeral, his intercom rings and a man who looks like a yakuza member shows himself. The man claims to work for a financing company, and he informs Yoshihito that his wife owes them a large sum of money. Flustered by the amount, Yoshihito can’t afford to pay it back right away, and the yakuza member offers him a surprising proposal: “I’ll buy you.” From that day forward, this yakuza member frequently shows up on Yoshihito's doorstep to claim his body. Contrary to his appearance, his hands are soft and tender when he touches Yoshihito…?
Download or read book The Devil of Nanking written by Mo Hayder and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2011-02-24 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Exceedingly creepy . . . The diabolically gifted British author spins a fascinating mystery from the legacy of Japanese atrocities during World War II.” —Entertainment Weekly With the redolent atmosphere of Ian Rankin and the spine-chilling characters of Thomas Harris, Mo Hayder’s The Devil of Nanking takes the reader on an electrifying literary ride from the palatial apartments of yakuza kingpins to deep inside the secret history of one of the twentieth century’s most brutal events: the Nanking Massacre. A young Englishwoman obsessed with an indecipherable past, Grey comes to Tokyo seeking a lost piece of film footage of the notorious 1937 Nanking Massacre, footage some say never existed. Only one man can help Grey. A survivor of the massacre, he is now a visiting professor at a university in Tokyo. But he will have nothing to do with her. So Grey accepts a job in an upmarket nightspot, where a certain gangster may be the key to gaining the professor’s trust. An old man in a wheelchair surrounded by a terrifying entourage, the gangster is rumored to rely on a mysterious elixir for his continued health. Taut, gritty, sexy, and harrowing, The Devil of Nanking is an incomparable literary thriller set in one of the world’s most fascinating cities—Tokyo—from an internationally bestselling author. “A haunting, lyrical, disturbing, important, suspenseful, wonderfully written and beautiful book.” —Harlan Coben
Download or read book The Girl He Took A Paige King FBI Suspense Thriller Book 3 written by Blake Pierce and published by Blake Pierce. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paige King, a Ph.D. in forensic psychology and a new arrival at the FBI’s elite BAU unit, has an uncanny ability to enter serial killers’ minds. She has seen the worst of the worst—but when a new serial killer strikes, victims turning up dead with magic tricks left at the scenes, Paige is baffled. What could the meaning be behind these macabre hints? “A masterpiece of thriller and mystery.” —Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (re Once Gone) THE GIRL HE TOOK is book #3 in a new series by #1 bestselling and critically acclaimed mystery and suspense author Blake Pierce. Up against her most challenging case yet, Paige must use her encyclopedic knowledge to decode the meaning of the strange magic clues. Can she discover what the killer wants, and why? Or by the time she figures it out, will it be too late? A complex psychological crime thriller full of twists and turns and packed with heart-pounding suspense, the PAIGE KING mystery series will make you fall in love with a brilliant new female protagonist and keep you turning pages late into the night. Books #4-#8 are also available! “An edge of your seat thriller in a new series that keeps you turning pages! ...So many twists, turns and red herrings… I can't wait to see what happens next.” —Reader review (Her Last Wish) “A strong, complex story about two FBI agents trying to stop a serial killer. If you want an author to capture your attention and have you guessing, yet trying to put the pieces together, Pierce is your author!” —Reader review (Her Last Wish) “A typical Blake Pierce twisting, turning, roller coaster ride suspense thriller. Will have you turning the pages to the last sentence of the last chapter!!!” —Reader review (City of Prey) “Right from the start we have an unusual protagonist that I haven't seen done in this genre before. The action is nonstop… A very atmospheric novel that will keep you turning pages well into the wee hours.” —Reader review (City of Prey) “Everything that I look for in a book… a great plot, interesting characters, and grabs your interest right away. The book moves along at a breakneck pace and stays that way until the end. Now on go I to book two!” —Reader review (Girl, Alone) “Exciting, heart pounding, edge of your seat book… a must read for mystery and suspense readers!” —Reader review (Girl, Alone)
Download or read book Mafia Life written by Federico Varese and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We see mafias as vast, powerful organizations, harvesting billions of dollars across the globe and wrapping their tentacles around everything from governance to finance. But is this the truth? Traveling from mafia initiation ceremonies in far-flung Russian cities to elite gambling clubs in downtown Macau, Federico Varese sets off in search of answers. Using wiretapped conversations, interviews, and previously unpublished police records, he builds up a picture of the real men and women caught up in mafia life, showing their loves and fears, ambitions and disappointments, as well as their crimes. Mafia Life takes us into the real world of organized crime, where henchmen worry about bad managers and have high blood pressure, assassinations are bungled as often as they come off, and increasing pressure from law enforcement means that a life of crime is no longer lived in the lap of luxury. As our world changes, so must mafias. Globalization, migration, and technology are disrupting their traditions and threatening their revenue streams, and the Mafiosi must evolve or die. Mafia Life is an intense and totally compelling look at these organizations and the daily life of their members, as they get to grips with the modern world.
Download or read book The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film written by Drewey Wayne Gunn and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film (2005), scholar Drewey Wayne Gunn examined the history of gay detectives beginning with the first recognized gay novel, The Heart in Exile, which appeared in 1953. In the years since the original edition's publication, hundreds of novels and short stories in this sub-genre have been produced, and Gunn has unearthed many additional representations previously unrecorded. In this new edition, Gunn provides an overview of milestones in the development of gay detectives over the last several decades. Also included in this volume is an annotated list of novels, short stories, plays, graphic novels, comic strips, films, and television series with gay detectives, gay sleuths of secondary importance, and non-sleuthing gay policemen. The most complete listing available--including the only listing of early gay pulp novels, present-day male-to-male romances, and erotic films--this new edition brings the work up to date with publications missed in the first edition, particularly cross-genre mysteries, early pulps, and some hard-to-find volumes. The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film: A History and Annotated Bibliography lists all printed works in English (including translations) presently known to include gay detectives (such as amateur sleuths, police detectives, private investigators, and investigative reporters), from the 1929 play Rope until the present day. It includes all films in English, subtitled or dubbed, from the screen version of Rope in 1948 and the launch of the independent film Spy on the Fly in 1966 through the end of 2011. Complete with two appendices--a bibliography of sources and a list of Lambda Literary Awards--and indexes of titles, detectives, and actors, this extensively revised and updated reference will prove invaluable to mystery collectors, researchers, aficionados of the subgenre, and those devoted to GLBTQ studies.
Download or read book New York written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
