{"product_id":"the-last-train-paperback","title":"The Last Train - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Pronko\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner \u003c\/strong\u003eShelf Unbound Best Independently Published Book 2018\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eSolo Medalist Winner \u003c\/strong\u003eNew Apple Awards for Excellence 2017 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eWinner \u003c\/strong\u003eCrime Fiction Beverly Hills Book Awards 2017\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eWinner\u003c\/strong\u003e Best Mystery Book Excellence Awards 2017\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDetective Hiroshi Shimizu investigates white collar crime in Tokyo. When an American businessman turns up dead, his mentor Takamatsu calls him out to the site of a grisly murder. A glimpse from a security camera video suggests the killer might be a woman. Hiroshi quickly learns how close homicide and suicide can appear in a city full of high-speed trains just a step--or a push--away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTakamatsu drags Hiroshi out to the hostess clubs and skyscraper offices of Tokyo in search of the killer. Hiroshi goes deeper and deeper into Tokyo's intricate, perilous market for buying and selling the most expensive land in the world. He teams up with ex-sumo wrestler Sakaguchi to scour Tokyo's sacred temples, corporate offices and industrial wastelands to find out why one woman was driven to murder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter years in America and lost in neat, clean spreadsheets, Hiroshi confronts the stark realities of the biggest city in the world, where inside information can travel in a flash from the insiders at top investment firms to street-level punks and teenage hostesses, everyone scrambling for their cut of Tokyo's lucrative land deals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHiroshi's determined to cut through Japan's ambiguities--and dangers--to find the murdering ex-hostess before she extracts her final revenge--which just might be him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMore at\u003c\/strong\u003e: www.michaelpronko.com\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 374\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.77 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 31, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42712328831039,"sku":"9781942410126","price":23.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/e7a32ec85b4ab4d949cebd3a8119cb50.webp?v=1765061394","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/the-last-train-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}