Also published as: Tokyo Station

Author: Martin Cruz Smith Year: 2002 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Historical fiction, Thriller, Mystery, War/Military Culture: Japan Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780671775926 9781416577751 0671775928 1416577750

Amid the imperialist fervor of late 1941 Tokyo, Harry Niles is a man with a mission -- self-preservation. But Niles was raised by missionary parents and educated in the shadows of Tokyo's underworld -- making his loyalties as dubious as his business dealings. Now, on the eve of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Niles must decide where his true allegiances lie, as he tries to juggle his Japanese mistress and an adulterous affair with the wife of a British diplomat; avoid a modern-day samurai who is honor-bound to kill him; and survive the machinations of the Japanese high command, whose plans for conquest may just dictate his survival. Set in a maelstrom of personal temptations and mortal enemies, with a remarkable anti-hero caught in a land he can never call his own, DECEMBER 6 is a triumph of imagination, history, and riveting storytelling. Similar books: The Emperor's General by James Webb Flight of Eagles by Jack Higgins Goodbye, Mickey Mouse by Len Deighton The Girl from Venice by Martin Cruz Smith Gone to Soldiers by Marge Piercy Gods of War by John Toland The Valhalla Exchange by Jack Higgins Three Women of Liverpool by Helen Forrester That Summer by Andrew Greig Rose by Martin Cruz Smith The Dressmaker's Gift by Fiona Valpy The Song Before It is Sung by Justin Cartwright Spandau Phoenix by Greg Iles Ordinary Heroes by Scott Turow Storm Warning by Jack Higgins The Eagle Has Flown by Jack Higgins Stallion Gate by Martin Cruz Smith Restless by William Boyd The Good German by Joseph Kanon