SPOTLIGHT: The Moving Blade by Michael Pronko @pronkomichael
The Moving Blade
by Michael Pronko
THIS COVER!! Take a look at book two in the Detective Hiroshi series below!
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.
When 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.
THE MOVING BLADE is the second in the Tokyo-based Detective
Hiroshi series by award-winning author Michael Pronko.
About the author
Michael Pronko is a Tokyo-based author who writes in three
genres—murder, memoir and music. The compelling, character-driven mysteries in
his Detective Hiroshi series, set in Tokyo, have won critic’s awards and
five-star reviews. Three collections of writings about Tokyo life, all
award-winning, were taken from his popular column in Newsweek Japan. Kirkus
Reviews called the third collection, “An elegantly written, precisely
observed portrait of a Japanese city and its culture." Michael also
runs the site, Jazz in Japan,
reviewing, interviewing and pondering the meaning of the vibrant jazz scene in
Tokyo and Yokohama.
Michael studied philosophy as an undergrad before taking off
to travel for several years. After more traveling, more degrees, and several
years teaching in China, Michael settled in Tokyo as a professor of American
Literature at Meiji Gakuin University. He teaches classes on contemporary
American novels, film adaptations, music and art. He has written regular columns
for: The Japan Times, Newsweek Japan, Jazznin, and Artscape Japan, amongst
others. He lives in western Tokyo with his wife and his Japanese (sort of)
garden.
News, views, thoughts and stories: http://www.michaelpronko.com/newsletter/
More at: http://www.michaelpronko.com/
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