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Highlights
- Tokyo, July 2001: Hard-boiled reporter Billy Chaka is back in the neon metropolis interviewing a has-been pop singer turned pachinko fanatic for Youth in Asia magazine.
- Author(s): Isaac Adamson
- 368 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Mystery & Detective
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About the Book
The third book in the Billy Chaka series finds the reporter in Tokyo investigating a murder. As the bodies pile up and the mystery deepens, Chaka untangles the lies and obsessions that link the dead girl to a forgotten, bloody incident from the end of World War II.Book Synopsis
Tokyo, July 2001: Hard-boiled reporter Billy Chaka is back in the neon metropolis interviewing a has-been pop singer turned pachinko fanatic for Youth in Asia magazine. Looks like an easy assignment until he witnesses a beautiful young woman suffer a seizure in the Lucky Benten pachinko hall. When she is later found dead beneath the expressway, Chaka becomes embroiled in an apparent blackmail plot involving a Ministry of Construction official, a brash nineteen-year-old girl, a shadowy entity known only as Mr. Bojangles, and four silent figures who have a penchant for showing up uninvited inside Chaka's hotel room.
As the bodies pile up and the mystery deepens, Chaka must untangle the lies, obsessions, and seemingly supernatural events that link the dead woman to a forgotten, bloody incident from the desperate closing days of World War II. Spellbinding and hilarious, Dreaming Pachinko will take you on a surreal thrill- ride through the city of the future -- a place where no one can escape the past.
Review Quotes
"An exuberant mix of urban noir and anime-style action, salted with cheeky humor."--Publishers Weekly
"Delightfully weird ... A splendid romp, an offbeat adventure with wacky characters, oddball dialogue, plenty of laughs, and style to spare."--Booklist
"Isaac Adamson paints an ultra-modern Tokyo that contrasts with its enigmatic history like neon against a dark sky."--Christopher Moore, author of FLUKE: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings and BLOODSUCKING FIENDS: A Love Story