Japan Thriller

Japan is a nation made up of many islands in the western Pacific Ocean. Over 100 million people live in this small nation of islands. Many live in the countryside, but millions live in crowded cities like Tokyo. Students will learn about the physical features of the landscape and surrounding waters as well as the cultural aspects of the Japanese from old traditions to modern everyday life.

Named Best Debut of the Year by Suspense Magazine and the winner of the Barry Award for Best Debut Novel In this “sophisticated international thriller” (The New York Times Book Review), an American antiques-dealer-turned-reluctant-private-eye must use his knowledge of Japanese culture to...

In a “sophisticated international thriller” (The New York Times Book Review) from “a fresh voice in crime fiction” (Kirkus Reviews), antiques dealer-turned-PI Jim Brodie takes on an elusive group of killers hunting for a long-lost treasure with a dangerous history. After wading through...

Atomenergie, bakteriologische Kampfmittel, die japanische Mafia der Yakuza, eine Geiselnahme im Shanghai World Financial Center...

Japanese antiques dealer and PI Jim Brodie goes up against a killer operating on both sides of the Pacific in Barry Lancet’s Pacific Burn—“a page-turning, globe-spanning tale of murder, suspense, and intrigue that grabs and holds your attention from beginning to end” (Nelson DeMille). In...

Im Januar 1989 wird in Tokio ein siebenjähriges Mädchen entführt. Die verzweifelten Eltern tun alles, um die Forderungen des Entführers zu erfüllen. Doch alle Bemühungen sind vergebens. Der Entführer entkommt unerkannt mit dem Lösegeld, kurz darauf wird die Leiche des Mädchens gefunden. Die Ermittlungen der Polizei laufen ins Leere. Der Fall geht unter dem Aktenzeichen 64 als ungelöstes Drama in die Kriminalgeschichte Japans ein.