The Last Train, Michael Pronko
The Last Train, Michael Pronko
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The Last Train

Author: Michael Pronko

Narrator: Peter Berkrot

Unabridged: 10 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/21/2021


Synopsis

Detective Hiroshi Shimizu investigates white collar crime in Tokyo. When an American businessman turns up dead, his mentor Takamatsu calls him out to the site of a grisly murder. Together with ex-sumo wrestler, Sakaguchi, Hiroshi scours Tokyo’s sacred temples, corporate offices and industrial wastelands to find out why one woman would be driven to murder when she seems to have it all. Hiroshi’s determined to cut through Japan’s ambiguities—and dangers—to find the murdering ex-hostess before she extracts her final revenge—which just might be him.

Reviews

The question is not Who but Why? Why would a beautiful young Japanese woman murder a drunken middle-aged American businessman? Why would she not merely push him off the train platform, but instead hurls him bodily? Why would she then slip into a cab and alight at the Yushima Tenjin Shinto shrine whe......more