Asakusa Noir (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798233745867)

Tokyo, at the height of the bubble. Money floods the city. Neon burns all night. Fortunes are made, laundered, and buried before dawn.

And in a quiet corner of Asakusa, someone wants a building badly enough to kill for it.

When a foreign correspondent returns from the edges of war to bury his mother, he finds a different kind of battlefield waiting at home. His thirteen-year-old sister, Miki, is all that stands between a small, stubborn property and the men determined to take it-yakuza fixers, a debt-ridden cop, and a system that doesn't bother pretending to be fair.

What starts as pressure-threats, broken windows, quiet visits-turns uglier fast.

Girls begin to fall from the sky.

People hear things they shouldn't hear. See things they can't explain. The city hums with something just beneath the surface, something that feeds on fear and grief-and it's getting closer.

Miki doesn't scare easily. She fights back with whatever she has: nerve, humor, and a refusal to give ground. Her brother wants to protect her, but Tokyo has its hooks in him too-old loyalties, bad instincts, and a woman who may be more dangerous than anything chasing them.

In a city built on money and silence, survival means choosing what you're willing to lose-and what you're willing to become.

Some stories about Tokyo were never meant to be told.