Tokyo Traffic - Pronko, Michael

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Résumé :
Running from a life she didn't choose, in a city she doesn't know. In the glow of Tokyo's endless neon, three bodies lie in a studio-one of them still breathing. Detective Hiroshi Shimizu is called from his desk and thrown into a case that spirals through the city's darkest arteries. What begins as a brutal multiple murder soon leads him into the sleek, deadly machinery of human trafficking, cryptocurrency laundering, and the people who profit from both. Somewhere in the chaos, a teenage girl named Sukanya has vanished-taking with her a stolen laptop that could expose an empire of exploitation. Hunted through Tokyo's alleys, hostess bars, and freight docks, she's the only witness who can unravel a web that stretches from the city's glittering skyline to its deepest shadows. With his steadfast mentor Takamatsu and the ever-formidable Sakaguchi, Hiroshi follows the trail through brothels disguised as clubs, hackers' dens pulsing with code, and offices that reek of power and denial. Every lead points to the same truth: in Tokyo, traffic isn't just cars and trains-it's people. Bought, sold, erased. As time runs out, Hiroshi faces a city where justice is negotiable and survival comes at a cost. To save the girl-and himself-he must navigate the blurred lines between victims and killers, cops and criminals, truth and the lies Tokyo tells itself. Tokyo Traffic is a relentless noir thriller that rips through the heart of modern Japan-where technology hides sin, compassion is dangerous, and power profits from the powerless. Awards & RecognitionGold Award - Literary Titan (2020) Gold Medallion - Book Readers Appreciation Group (B.R.A.G.) (2020) Reviewer's Choice - Feathered Quill Book Awards (2020) Winner - Thriller - Independent Press Award (2021) Winner - Thriller - National Indie Excellence Awards (2021) Silver Medal - Reader's Favorite Fiction Mystery Murder Silver Winner - Thriller and Suspense - Foreword Indies (2020) Bronze Award - Reader Views Reviewer's Choice Awards (2020-2021, Mystery/Thriller)...

Biographie:
Award-winning novelist, essayist, and journalist Michael Pronko has nearly thirty years of experience writing about jazz and Japan for Tokyo Q, The Japan Times, JJazz.net, Jazznin, and other publications. He contributed a chapter on Japanese jazz to The Routledge Companion to Jazz Studies (2021) and to The Jazz Omnibus (2024) collection of the Jazz Journalists Association. He runs the Jazz in Japan website with reviews, previews, essays, and interviews. He's also the author of the award-winning Tokyo-based Detective Hiroshi mystery series and the acclaimed Tokyo Moments series....

Sommaire:
In Tokyo, street smarts aren't always enough. Gold Medallion Book Readers Appreciation Group (B.R.A.G.) (2020) Long-listed Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book (2020) Reviewer's Choice Feathered Quill Book Awards (2020) Winner Thriller Independent Press Award (2021) Winner Thriller National Indie Excellence Awards (2021) First Runner-Up Eric Hoffer Award 2021 Sukanya, a young Thai girl, escapes into Tokyo. With her Bangkok street smarts, she stays ahead of traffickers willing to do anything to recover the computer she took when she fled a murder scene. After befriending Chiho, a Japanese girl living in an internet caf?, Sukanya tries to rid herself of her pursuers, and her past, forever. Detective Hiroshi Shimizu leaves the safe confines of his office to investigate a triple murder at a porn studio. The studio's accounts point him in multiple directions at once. Together with ex-sumo wrestler Sakaguchi and old-school Takamatsu, Hiroshi tracks the killers through Tokyo's teen hangouts, bayside docks, and crowded squares, straight into the underbelly of the global economy. As bodies wash up from Tokyo Bay, Hiroshi tries to find the Thai girl whose name he doesn't even know. He uncovers trafficking rings and cryptocurrency scammers whose connections extend to the highest levels of Tokyo's power elite. A first-rate hardboiled crime novel.-Best Thrillers Tokyo Traffic is the third book in the Tokyo-based Detective Hiroshi series by award-winning author Michael Pronko....