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“Best of Debut of the Year” —Suspense Magazine
WINNER of the Barry Award for Best Debut Novel
Optioned for TV by J.J. Abrams & Warner Bros.
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 unravel a major murder in San Francisco—before he and his daughter become targets themselves.
San Francisco antiques dealer Jim Brodie receives a call one night from a friend at the SFPD: an entire family has been senselessly gunned down in the Japantown neighborhood of the bustling city. As an American born and raised in Japan and part-owner of his father’s Tokyo private investigation firm, Brodie has advised the local police in the past, but the near-perfect murders in Japantown are like nothing he’s ever encountered.
With his array of Asian contacts and fluency in Japanese, Brodie follows leads gathered from a shadow powerbroker, a renegade Japanese detective, and the elusive tycoon at the center of the Japantown murders along a trail that takes him from the crime scene in California to terrorized citizens and informants in Japan. Step by step, he unravels a web of intrigue stretching back centuries and unearths a deadly secret that threatens not only his life but also the lives of his entire circle of family and friends. “Readers will want to see more of the talented Jim Brodie, with his expertise in Japanese culture, history, and martial arts” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
- Sales Rank: #179843 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-09-03
- Released on: 2013-09-03
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Lancet successfully places a PI in an international thriller plot in his highly entertaining debut. Five members of the Nakamura family have been gunned down at a pedestrian mall in San Francisco's Japantown. SFPD Lt. Frank Renna asks Jim Brodie, an antiques dealer who inherited his father's Tokyo-based private investigation firm, to decipher the one clue found at the crime scene: a single kanji, or Japanese letter, written on a piece of paper. Jim saw that same letter before—at the house fire in which his wife, Mieko, perished. Tokyo communications mogul Katsuyuki Hara hires Jim to find out who murdered his eldest daughter and the four other family members, including two children. The PI gets on the trail of the ruthless Soga, a private army for hire that's responsible for unsolved high-profile deaths worldwide. The case becomes personal when the Soga kidnap Jim's six-year-old daughter, Jenny. Readers will want to see more of the talented Jim, with his expertise in Japanese culture, history, and martial arts. Agent: Robert Gottlieb, Trident Media Group. (Sept.)
From Booklist
Jim Brodie is an antiques dealer living in San Francisco. Because of his familiarity with Japanese culture (like author Lancet, Brodie lived in Japan for a long time), he often serves as a consultant to the police when they’re investigating crimes involving the city’s Japanese population. When a Tokyo family is murdered in the Japantown district of San Francisco, Brodie isn’t surprised to be invited to the crime scene. But he is surprised to see, on a scrap of paper near the bodies, a Japanese kanji (ideograph) that appears identical to one he found near his own dead wife’s body several years ago. Is there a serial killer at work? Is his wife’s death somehow connected with these killings? Brodie flirts with danger and obsession to find the truth. A solid mystery with a memorable protagonist, the book captures our interest from the first page. The story doesn’t cry out for a sequel, but it’s unlikely anyone would object to another Brodie novel. --David Pitt
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“One of the Best Thrillers of 2013."
— Suspense Magazine
“[A] sophisticated international thriller . . . Having lived and worked in Japan for more than 25 years, Lancet brings an impressive breadth of knowledge to the historical aspects of the mystery and a sharp sense of immediacy to its action.”
— The New York Times Book Review
“Is the 21st century ready for multinational ninja MBAs who hack computer networks instead of flinging poisoned darts, and who surgically take out business rivals instead of whacking feudal lords? More important, does Jim Brodie have the brains and fortitude to save his young daughter and himself from these cold-blooded modern-day predators? Read Japantown and you’ll find out.”
— Mark Schreiber, Japan Times
“Lancet, an American who has lived and worked in Japan for decades . . . commands a much stronger knowledge of the culture than his predecessors and . . . provide[s] a deep and easy familiarity with the dilemmas that his protagonist faces trying to bridge the gap between two vastly different cultures. . . . Strong writing and deep passion for the material carry the story and characters far enough to hold the interest of any reader who enjoys this sort of story.”
— Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“One of the hottest debut authors of 2013 . . . [a] taut international thriller that races from San Francisco to Lancet’s adopted hometown of Tokyo. . . . J.J. Abrams of ‘Lost’ fame recently bought the TV rights to the book.”
— Suspense Magazine
“Lancet successfully places a PI in an international thriller plot in his highly entertaining debut . . . Readers will want to see more of the talented Jim Brodie, with his expertise in Japanese culture, history, and martial arts.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"The first book in what will likely be a long and successful series."
— San Francisco Magazine
“The debut novel by a 25-year resident of Japan is a zippy page-turner set in San Francisco's Japantown, Tokyo and a remote Japanese village.”
— SFExaminer.com
“Engrossing . . . Japantown is full of action and surprises . . . an extremely impressive debut that is almost sure to be short-listed for any number of awards next year. Pick it up now to see what all the excitement will be about.”
— Bookreporter.com
“A fine thriller filled with satisfying mystery, solid characterization and high drama.”
— California Bookwatch
“In 1992 the Japanese bubble economy burst, but not before spawning Michael Crichton’s archetypal thriller Rising Sun, which looms large in the background of Japantown, author Barry Lancet’s first work of fiction. Lancet’s fluency in the Japanese language, extensive knowledge of, and empathy with, the culture from which it is inseparable, and gift for creating likable (as well as despicable) characters add depth and authenticity to this captivating thriller that other non-Japanese authors rarely attain. . . . Far from a mere mouthpiece for multiculturalism, [Lancet’s hero, Brodie] comes across as a complex figure with a genuine personal history, at once blessed with extensive expertise in his chosen fields and dogged by the kind of emotional conflicts common to the human experience. . . . Although I have studied Japanese for 30 years, I was kept guessing until the very end. Those with little knowledge of things Japanese will nonetheless be kept in suspense by the twists and turns of the underlying story — and edified and entertained along the way.”
— Washington Independent Review of Books
"Engrossing debut thriller . . . Lancet has a gift for pacing and keeps the reader engaged and guessing til the very end."
— Library Journal
“[Lancet] draws upon his familiarity with the terrain, local history and Japanese culture to create an East-West adventure that informs as it thrills. . . . the intricate plot is skillfully developed, the action never flags and the climax is gripping. A fresh voice in crime fiction.”
— Kirkus Reviews
“A solid mystery with a memorable protagonist, the book captures our interest from the first page.”
— Booklist
“Sometimes I come across a book that simply is too good not to share, even if it lies outside my technophile niche . . . A distinctive and well-written debut novel with a fresh take on the international thriller genre.”
— Sciencethriller.com
“From gritty San Francisco to exotic Tokyo, Japantown is a whip-smart, razor-fast ride, and entertaining from cover to cover.”
— Taylor Stevens, New York Times bestselling author of The Informationist
“This is a terrific debut from a talented and very promising writer. Nimbly written and atmospheric, Lancet brings San Francisco to life in all its layers, focusing on the mysteries of the Japanese-American people. He depicts a rich mixture of art and violence, the past and the present, east and west.”
— T. Jefferson Parker, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Famous and the Dead, and The Jaguar
“Get ready for an action-packed, tension-filled escape with Barry Lancet’s thriller worthy of Elmore Leonard. The trail of crime races from Tokyo to New York and returns inevitably to Japantown, six square blocks in San Francisco, where antiques dealer and private eye Jim Brodie walks a dangerous line in the shadow world of clashing cultures.”
— Ronald Kessler, author of In the President's Secret Service and The Secrets of the FBI
“Japantown is an expertly written story with vivid, complex characters. The mystery holds surprises until the very end.”
— New York Times bestselling author Larry Bond
Most helpful customer reviews
33 of 36 people found the following review helpful.
So interesting, plus some great action!
By N. Gargano
I really enjoyed this book, it was billed as a mystery, but it was a thriller, mystery and education, all rolled into one. The story starts off in Japantown in San Francisco, taking the reader through the solving of a killer, and the explanation of parts of a culture, in America and Japan. I was enthralled from the beginning, the author grabbed me right away, and each page I turned, kept me wanting more.
I was a little surprised at some of the negative reviews that focused on the fact the author used his knowledge of Japan, the culture and the history. I thought it made the story so much more interesting, and I really look forward to more from this author. If you hate open ended books, have no fear, this could stand alone, I just hope it won't. I just hope we will see more of these characters soon. Again, a thriller, a mystery, great characters and an education. What more you could ask for?
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
You won't be able to put it down
By Bookreporter
San Francisco's Japantown does not get the same amount of attention paid to it as Chinatown, its much larger, older and more colorful sister. When I lived in the city about 40 years ago, I went through the area several times but never stopped; it simply was not a destination. Barry Lancet's debut novel, JAPANTOWN, has changed that for me; if I were in the city right now, I would drive or hop on a bus, walk down to Geary Street, and head west to retrace the places where so many events in this engrossing tale take place.
JAPANTOWN is centered on an intriguing character named Jim Brodie, an antiques dealer who, through the machinations of inheritance, is also part owner of a transcontinental investigation agency with a tiny office in Japantown and a much larger one in Tokyo. Brodie is a widower with a six-year-old daughter and a tragic past that rears its ugly head when a family of Japanese tourists is gunned down on an otherwise quiet evening on a Japantown street. Brodie is called in to consult and is shocked when a kanji --- a written Japanese character --- is found at the crime scene. The discovery reopens the most tragic moment of Brodie's life, as the identical character was left at the scene of the fire that took the life of his beloved wife and her parents a few years previously.
Brodie becomes further involved in the current investigation when he is retained by a Japanese media magnate who was related to the executed family to locate the killers and enact a measure of revenge. Brodie makes it clear that he is not an executioner but agrees to investigate the deaths, in part because the presence of the kanji at both crime scenes seems to link them, despite the years between the two.
When the Tokyo office of his investigation firm traces the kanji to an ancient and isolated Japanese village, Brodie returns to Tokyo, where he had lived with his parents as a child. Though Brodie is an American Caucasian, he is deeply steeped in the Japanese language and culture. With a foot in each of the two worlds, he begins an investigation that gradually uncovers a shadowy organization that, over the course of hundreds of years, has slowly and quietly acquired power and wealth while stretching its influence into the highest levels of government in Tokyo and beyond. The investigation has inadvertently caused him to make an extremely powerful and apparently omnipotent enemy, who will think nothing of taking him --- and his daughter --- down.
JAPANTOWN is full of action and surprises, particularly within the last 70 pages or so, during which Brodie's world is turned upside down and back again. There's a bit of world beating, some history, a course in how the world works, and, at times, a great deal of violence. What more could one ask for? A love interest? Well, if you count the fact that Brodie still pines for his deceased wife, the book has that as well. To its credit, JAPANTOWN also has a definitive ending, but for some reason, I think that Brodie, among others, may be back for another spirited go-around.
Regardless of whether it's a stand-alone or the beginning of a series, Lancet has favored us with an extremely impressive debut that is almost sure to be short-listed for any number of awards next year. Pick it up now to see what all the excitement will be about.
Reviewed by Joe Hartlaub
17 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
One of the Best First Novels I've Ever Read
By Robert D. Anderson
This truly was one of the best first novels I have ever read. The author reminds me of Lee Child and James Lee Burke.
Suspenseful, and never flagging...this novel kept my intererst throughout. I found myself not wanting to read it too quickly so I could just savor the plot development. I am sure we will see many more fine novels from this author.
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