Tokyo Kill: A Thriller
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In the second thriller of this new series from "a fresh voice in crime fiction" (Kirkus Reviews), antiques dealer-turned-P.I. Jim Brodie matches wits with an elusive group of killers chasing a long-lost treasure that has a dangerous history.
"A stellar novel of action, adventure, and intrigue. Jim Brodie is a true twenty-first century hero...On page after page of Tokyo Kill, skeletons bang on every closet door longing to be set free—and Barry Lancet delivers."
—Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of The Lincoln Myth
"Lancet's familiarity with Japanese history and culture, combined with his storytelling skills, make this a first-rate mystery...a clear indicator that the author considers Jim Brodie a series-worthy character. He'd be right, too."
—Booklist
"Boasting surefire characters including the taciturn, thick-chested chief detective Noda and notorious crime figure called TNT who owes Brodie favors...[Lancet's] series remains highly distinctive."
—Kirkus Reviews
When an elderly World War II veteran shows up unannounced at Brodie Security begging for protection, the staff thinks he's just a paranoid old man. He offers up a story connected to the war and to Chinese Triads operating in present-day Tokyo, insisting that he and his few surviving army buddies are in danger.
Fresh off his involvement in solving San Francisco's Japantown murders, antiques dealer Jim Brodie had returned to Tokyo for some R&R, and to hunt down a rare ink painting by the legendary Japanese Zen master Sengai for one of his clients—not to take on another case with his late father's P.I. firm. But out of respect for the old soldier, Brodie agrees to provide a security detail, thinking it'll be an easy job and end when the man comes to his senses.
Instead, an unexpected, brutal murder rocks Brodie and his crew, sending them deep into the realm of the Triads, Chinese spies, kendo warriors, and an elusive group of killers whose treachery spans centuries—and who will stop at nothing to complete their mission.
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Barry Lancet. (2014). Tokyo Kill: A Thriller. Simon & Schuster.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Barry Lancet. 2014. Tokyo Kill: A Thriller. Simon & Schuster.
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- bioText: Barry Lancet is a Barry Award–winning author and finalist for the Shamus Award. He has lived in Japan for more than twenty-five years. His former position as an editor at one of the nation's largest publishers gave him access to the inner circles in traditional and business fields most outsiders are never granted, and an insider's view that informs his writing. He is the author of the Jim Brodie series: The Spy Across the Table; Pacific Burn; Tokyo Kill; and Japantown, which received four citations for Best First Novel and has been optioned by J.J. Abrams's Bad Robot Productions, in association with Warner Brothers. Visit Lancet at BarryLancet.com or on Twitter @BarryLancet.
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In the second thriller of this new series from "a fresh voice in crime fiction" (Kirkus Reviews), antiques dealer-turned-P.I. Jim Brodie matches wits with an elusive group of killers chasing a long-lost treasure that has a dangerous history.
"A stellar novel of action, adventure, and intrigue. Jim Brodie is a true twenty-first century hero...On page after page of Tokyo Kill, skeletons bang on every closet door longing to be set free—and Barry Lancet delivers."
—Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of The Lincoln Myth
"Lancet's familiarity with Japanese history and culture, combined with his storytelling skills, make this a first-rate mystery...a clear indicator that the author considers Jim Brodie a series-worthy character. He'd be right, too."
—Booklist
"Boasting surefire characters including the taciturn, thick-chested chief detective Noda and notorious crime figure called TNT who owes Brodie favors...[Lancet's] series remains highly distinctive."
—Kirkus Reviews
When an elderly World War II veteran shows up unannounced at Brodie Security begging for protection, the staff thinks he's just a paranoid old man. He offers up a story connected to the war and to Chinese Triads operating in present-day Tokyo, insisting that he and his few surviving army buddies are in danger.
Fresh off his involvement in solving San Francisco's Japantown murders, antiques dealer Jim Brodie had returned to Tokyo for some R&R, and to hunt down a rare ink painting by the legendary Japanese Zen master Sengai for one of his clients—not to take on another case with his late father's P.I. firm. But out of respect for the old soldier, Brodie agrees to provide a security detail, thinking it'll be an easy job and end when the man comes to his senses.
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July 7, 2014
Lancet’s second novel featuring Tokyo-based PI Jim Brodie falls short of the high standard set by his debut, 2013’s Japantown. Brodie agrees to take the case of Akira Miura, a 93-year-old former soldier, who freely admits he committed war crimes as a young man on duty in China during Japan’s occupation in the years before WWII. In recent weeks, Miura claims, several of his surviving fellow soldiers have been murdered in a series of home invasions, and he wants Brodie to investigate as well as provide protection. Miura suspects a vigilante Chinese triad is behind the killings, but Brody quickly figures out something else is at stake. As the case progresses, Brodie encounters a series of sneering, interchangeable bad guys in a plot that consists of scene after confrontational scene involving knife fights, poisonings, and martial arts showdowns with little supporting structure in between. Repetitive, aimless dialogue doesn’t help. Agent: Robert Gottlieb, Trident Media Group.
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Tokyo-based PI and antiques dealer Jim Brodie, introduced in Japantown (2013), is targeted by a lethal gang for investigating the brutal home-invasion murder of two elderly men and their families. A one-time fellow soldier of the slain men, feisty 96-year-old Akira Miura is certain the killings were acts of reprisal. In the years before World War II, when Japan occupied China, Miura's company there shot prisoners to "entertain" their superiors. Now, he insists, the deadly Chinese Triad gangs are out to avenge those crimes. It isn't long before Brodie is defending himself, or trying to, against trained attackers with blades and bamboo weapons. Through the underground Chinese contacts provided by his ambitious female police partner, Rie-a romantic attraction who is indignant over his efforts to protect her-he discovers that a mysterious Japanese crime ring is responsible for the killings, not the Triad. The ultrarare paintings of a Japanese monk a London collector has asked him to find may be at the heart of the mystery. And if all of this isn't enough to worry about, Brodie, whose wife was murdered, must also keep his young daughter safe. His enemies are well-aware of her existence. Though the novel gets off to a crisp start, boasting surefire characters including the taciturn, thick-chested chief detective Noda and a notorious crime figure called TNT who owes Brodie favors, things never rise to the level of excitement or surprise of Japantown. The historical material slows things down. The confrontations lack the cool menace of the ones in the first book. And as serviceable as Barbados is for the climax, the particulars of Brodie's concept all but demand a return to San Francisco, the other town in which he operates. Lancet hits a few bumps the second time around, but his series remains highly distinctive.COPYRIGHT(2014) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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In Japantown (2013), we met Jim Brodie, a San Francisco antiques dealer who, having spent many years living in Japan, was asked by the SFPD to help with a series of crimes connected to the city's Japanese population. Here, in the second Brodie novel, Jim is in Tokyo, where he has inherited a stake in his late father's security firm, when a new client walks into the offices of Brodie Security. The man, a Japanese WWII veteran, claims that a Chinese triad organization is behind a recent string of home invasions that have left some of his military comrades dead. Brodie wonders why the triads would want to kill elderly Japanese soldiers but agrees to assign the man some protection. Turns out the soldier wasn't exaggerating. The author's familiarity with Japanese history and culture, combined with his storytelling skills, make this a first-rate mystery, at least as good as Japantown. That novel could have worked just fine as a one-off, but this second book is a clear indicator that Lancet considers Jim Brodie a series-worthy character. He'd be right, too.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2014, American Library Association.)
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"A stellar novel of action, adventure, and intrigue. Jim Brodie is a true twenty-first century hero...On page after page of Tokyo Kill, skeletons bang on every closet door longing to be set free—and Barry Lancet delivers."
—Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of The Lincoln Myth
"Lancet's familiarity with Japanese history and culture, combined with his storytelling skills, make this a first-rate mystery...a clear indicator that the author considers Jim Brodie a series-worthy character. He'd be right, too."
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