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Name: Dreaming Pachinko

Author: Isaac Adamson
Year: 2003
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Genres/categories:
Mystery, Fiction, Humor
Culture: Japan

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ISBNs:
9780060516239
0060516232

Tokyo, July 2001: Hard-boiled reporter Billy Chaka is back in the neon metropolis interviewing a has-been pop singer turned pachinko fanatic for Youth in Asia magazine. Looks like an easy assignment until he witnesses a beautiful young woman suffer a seizure in the Lucky Benten pachinko hall. When she is later found dead beneath the expressway, Chaka becomes embroiled in an apparent blackmail plot involving a Ministry of Construction official, a brash nineteen-year-old girl, a shadowy entity known only as "Mr. Bojangles," and four silent figures who have a penchant for showing up uninvited inside Chaka's hotel room.

As the bodies pile up and the mystery deepens, Chaka must untangle the lies, obsessions, and seemingly supernatural events that link the dead woman to a forgotten, bloody incident from the desperate closing days of World War II. Spellbinding and hilarious, Dreaming Pachinko will take you on a surreal thrill- ride through the city of the future -- a place where no one can escape the past.

This book is part of the "Billy Chaka" series. Here are some other books from this series:

"Hokkaido Popsicle"
First published in 2002
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"Tokyo Suckerpunch"
First published in 2000
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"Kinki Lullaby"
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