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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Pocket Books, 1995. 1st ed. A fine copy of the Advance Reading copy. SIGNED & DATED, Sept. 30 '95. Author's 1st book. Winner of the inaugural Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize. A novel which illuminates the clash between Japanese and American cultures. Brown who is also working on the screenplay for a movie version optioned by filmaker Wayne wang ("the Joy Luck Club", "Smoke") to be produced by Miramax.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Pictorial Cover. Fine. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC).

NY, NY: Villard, 1985. 1st ed. [ A Villard imprint of Random House Co. Number line thus ends in "2" for the first printing.] Page edges spotted, else near ine in dust jacket. Moses Wine. When detective Moses Wine becomes head of security for the Tulip Computer Corporation started by a young computer nerd known as the Wiz--all goes well until one of Tulip's young geniuses is murdered. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

New York: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2005. 1st ed. A fine copy of this Trade Paperback. EDGAR AWARD WINNER for Best First Novel. Lisa Countryman is a woman of complex origins. Half Japenese, adopted by African American parents, she returns to Tokyo. When she vanishes in 1980 Tokyo's sexual underworld, a young U.S. Embassy official, Tom Hurley, who is half Korean and half white, is assigned her case at the American Embassy, as is local cop Kenzo Ota, who is one hundred percent Japanese but deemed an outsider.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine. Trade Paperback.

NY: Kodansha International, 2003. 1st edition, A fine copy of the uncorrected proof in wraps. This is Tasker's 4th novel set in Tokyo. "this new thriller from Tasker... does boast a winning premise. Backed by a powerful Chinese general and capitalizing on Japan's economic malaise and discontent, terrorist Reiko Matsubara plots a political revolution that will make Japan a nuclear power and undermine the country's cozy relationship with the U.S. The plan is to carefully orchestrate the political career of a popular entertainer, a sort of Japanese Ronald Reagan, until he becomes a figurehead prime minister controlled by Matsubara's sinister terrorist group. Martine Meyer, an American reporter for a U.S. newspaper, is a longtime resident of Japan who has influential contacts at every level of Japanese society. When she begins investigating the entertainer, Tsuyoshi Nozawa, and the peculiar people who surround him, a mysterious source feeds her information by e-mail, giving her a… Read More

NY: Morrow, 1985. 4th printing. Near fine in dj.. Later Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

London, United Kingdom: Picador, 2001. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED, signature only, by the author on the title page. The authors debut mystery novel, WINNER OF THE CWA'S JOHN CREASY MEMORIAL AWARD for the best first crime novel of 2001. A haunting novel set in Japan which reveals a murder on its first page and takes its readers into the mind of the chief suspect, Lucy Fly - a young vulnerable English girl living and working in Tokyo as a translator. As Lucy is interrogated by the police she reveals her past to the reader. and it is a past which is dangerously ambiguous and compromising . . .Why did Lucy leave England for the foreign anonymity of Japan ten years before, and what exactly had prompted her to sever all links with her family back home? She was the last person to see the murdered girl alive, so why was she not more forthcoming about the circumstances of their last meeting?… Read More

N.Y.: Soho Crime, 2016. 1st ed. A fine, unread copy of the Advance Uncopyedited edition due out July, 2016. 224 pages. Zen-Noir master Nakamura returns to the Tokyo of The Thief, where a young grifter named Yurika finds herself in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with the shadowy crime lord Kizaki. Yurika is a freelancer in the Tokyo underworld. She poses as a prostitute, carefully targeting potential johns, selecting powerful and high-profile men. When she is alone with them, she drugs them and takes incriminating photos to sell for blackmail purposes. She knows very little about the organization she’s working for, and is perfectly satisfied with the arrangement, as long as it means she doesn’t have to reveal anything about her identity, either. She operates alone and lives a private, solitary life, doing her best to lock away painful memories. But when a figure from Yurika’s past resurfaces, she realizes there is someone out there who knows all her secrets: her losses, her… Read More

N.Y.: HarperCollins, 2005. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. A Rei Shimura mystery. After a party for her 30th birthday party, Rei answers a mysterious invitation to a job inteview. The task is to search for and authenticate an ancient Middle Eastern pitcher that disappeared from Iraq's national museum. The piece is believed to be in the hands of a wealthy Japanese collector, whose passion for beauty extends to Rei herself. When a typhoon hits Tokyo, and Rei finds herself trapped along with the object of her investigation, she discovers that much more is at risk than the pitcher. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.