| Yoshiwara Contributor(s): Moore, Donald G. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0595656447 ISBN-13: 9780595656448 Publisher: iUniverse OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2003 Annotation: Yoshiwara, the centuries-old pleasure quarter in Tokyo, is the backdrop for a story set in Japan on the eve of the Second World War, where an American journalist, recruited by the Office of Naval Intelligence becomes entangled in a web of espionage and murder that includes; a woman sold to a bordello in Yoshiwara, who falls in love with the journalist; a female serial killer, who stalks and kills patrons of Yoshiwara; a husband and wife, members of Japan's outcast society, the Burakumin, who agree to work for ONI in exchange for safe passage out of Japan; and an officer in the Japanese secret police, the Kempei Tai, who suspects that the journalist and the Burakumin couple are spies. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Action & Adventure - Fiction | Thrillers - Espionage |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 6.38" W x 9.38" (1.23 lbs) 232 pages |