Tokyo Zangyo - Pronko, Michael

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Résumé :
In a city built on endless overtime, some people clock out for good. When a senior executive dives from the rooftop of a media empire, the fall is written off as another casualty of zangyo-Japan's notorious overtime culture. But Detective Hiroshi knows better. He's seen how the city chews up people and calls it business. To the suits upstairs, it's an unfortunate headline. To Hiroshi, it's a message. His investigation drags him through a maze of neon and nicotine: lavish hostess clubs, empty conference rooms, and ledgers that hide more than numbers. With his mentor, Takamatsu, and the stolid Sakaguchi, Hiroshi follows the money, the favors, and the silence. Every lead brings him closer to the darkness at the heart of Japan Inc.-a system that rewards loyalty and work, work, work, while burying the truth under a mountain of paperwork. From the Marunouchi boardrooms to the Shinjuku backstreets, polite smiles mask quiet threats. Secrets are traded over whiskey. And somewhere between the late trains and the last drink, Hiroshi realizes he's not just solving a case-he's staring down the machinery that keeps Tokyo alive. Tokyo Zangyo is more than a murder mystery. It's a descent into the shimmering darkness of modern Japan: a world of ambition, desperation, and corporate ghosts. Every clue drags Hiroshi closer to the truth-that Tokyo's most dangerous killer might not carry a weapon at all. Beneath the work deadlines, something deadly lurks. Winner Mystery of the Year BestThrillers.com (2021) Gold Medal Reader's Favorite Mystery (2022) Gold Medallion Book Readers Appreciation Group (2021) Gold Award Literary Titan Book Award (2021) Silver Award Independent Publisher Awards IPPY (2022) Silver Medal Global eBook Awards for Mystery Fiction (2022) Bronze Award Reader Views Literary Awards (2021-2022)...

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 a city built on endless overtime, some people clock out for good. When a senior executive dives from the rooftop of a media empire, the fall is written off as another casualty of zangyo-Japan's notorious overtime culture. But Detective Hiroshi knows better. He's seen how the city chews up people and calls it business. To the suits upstairs, it's an unfortunate headline. To Hiroshi, it's a message. His investigation drags him through a maze of neon and nicotine: lavish hostess clubs, empty conference rooms, and ledgers that hide more than numbers. With his mentor, Takamatsu, and the stolid Sakaguchi, Hiroshi follows the money, the favors, and the silence. Every lead brings him closer to the darkness at the heart of Japan Inc.-a system that rewards loyalty and work, work, work, while burying the truth under a mountain of paperwork. From the Marunouchi boardrooms to the Shinjuku backstreets, polite smiles mask quiet threats. Secrets are traded over whiskey. And somewhere between the late trains and the last drink, Hiroshi realizes he's not just solving a case-he's staring down the machinery that keeps Tokyo alive. Tokyo Zangyo is more than a murder mystery. It's a descent into the shimmering darkness of modern Japan: a world of ambition, desperation, and corporate ghosts. Every clue drags Hiroshi closer to the truth-that Tokyo's most dangerous killer might not carry a weapon at all. Beneath the work deadlines, something deadly lurks. Winner Mystery of the Year BestThrillers.com (2021) Gold Medal Reader's Favorite Mystery (2022) Gold Medallion Book Readers Appreciation Group (2021) Gold Award Literary Titan Book Award (2021) Silver Award Independent Publisher Awards IPPY (2022) Silver Medal Global eBook Awards for Mystery Fiction (2022) Bronze Award Reader Views Literary Awards (2021-2022)...