Bomb Baby (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781926617046)

The bomb baby was in Hiroshima, in utero, at the moment of the glamorous detonation. As a result of prenatal exposure to gamma rays, he is tiny and mentally deficient, but his physical vigor is unimpaired. Living on a makeshift raft on the river that runs through town, he only comes ashore to disrupt high-tone weddings at Hiroshima Cathedral. It's a hobby for him. He disappears soon after spoiling a Yakuza wedding. This doesn't sit well with the leading lights of the expatriate community, who've adopted the bomb baby as a mascot. They dispatch Sam Edwine, a reluctant and inefficient American slob, to search "Boom Town's" sordid and musty places, of which there is a wide assortment...

Author: Tom Bradley
ISBN-10: 1926617045
ISBN-13: 9781926617046
Publisher: Crossing Chaos Enigmatic Ink
Language: English
Published: 07/31/2010
Pages: 230
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.48d