The Moving Blade
Jun 2020 · Raked Gravel Press
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When the top American diplomat in Tokyo, Bernard Mattson, is killed, he leaves more than a lifetime of successful Japan-American negotiations. He leaves a missing manuscript, boxes of research, a lost keynote speech and a tangled web of relations.
After his alluring daughter, Jamie, returns from America wanting answers, finding only threats, Detective Hiroshi Shimizu is dragged from the safe confines of his office into the street-level realities of Pacific Rim politics.
With help from ex-sumo wrestler Sakaguchi, Hiroshi searches for the killer from Tokyo’s back alley bars to government offices, through anti-nuke protests to the gates of an American naval base. When two more bodies turn up, Hiroshi must choose between desire and duty, violence or procedure, before the killer silences his next victim—and the past.
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13 August 2023
The Detective Hiroshi Series: Sources: AuthorsXP dot com or ARCs from author. All the books are a bit wordy but still worth reading. The Last Train, #1 - Interesting. Immersing. 5* The Moving Blade, #2 - Interesting and immersing. 4* Tokyo Traffic, #3 - Still interesting and immersing. 4* Tokyo Zangyo, #4 - Interesting reading about the Japanese work culture. 4* Azabu Getaway, #5 - Interesting and intriguing. 4* The Detective Hiroshi Series end. Memoirs on Tokyo Life: Source: ARCs from author. Beauty and Chaos: Slices and Morsels of Tokyo Life, #1 - Interesting snippets into Toyko and her people and their culture seen through the author's eyes. 4* Tokyo’s Mystery Deepens: Essays on Tokyo, #2 - Interesting short stories. 4* Motions and Moments: More Essays on Tokyo, #3 - Interesting. 4* Memoirs on Tokyo Life end.
About the author
Michael Pronko has lived in Tokyo for twenty years, but was born in Kansas City, a very different world. After graduating from Brown University in philosophy, he hit the road, traveling around the world for two years working odd jobs. He went back to school for a Master's in Education, and then took a teaching position in Beijing. For two years, he taught English, traveled China and wrote. After more traveling, another M.A. in Comparative Literature in UW Madison, and a PhD in English and film in University of Kent, he settled in Tokyo as a professor of American Literature at Meiji Gakuin University. His seminars focus on contemporary novels and film adaptations, with other classes in American indie film and American music and art. In addition to award-winner The Last Train (2017), Pronko has published three award-winning collections about Tokyo life: Motions and Moments (2015), Tokyo's Mystery Deepens (2014), and Beauty and Chaos (2014). He has published three books in Japanese and two textbooks in both English and Japanese. Over the years in Tokyo, he has written regular columns for many publications: The Japan Times, Newsweek Japan, Jazznin, ST Shukan, Jazz Colo[u]rs, and Artscape Japan. He runs his own website Jazz in Japan (www.jazzinjapan.com). He also continues to publish academic articles and helps run the Liberlit Conference on teaching literature. More at: www.michaelpronko.comwww.facebook.com/pronkoauthor @pronkomichael
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