Bob Lee Sagger and Philip Yano are in search of a sword that was used in battle. However, finding the sword has led them into danger.

The Japanese gold treasure lost since World War II; a girl for whom betrayal is the inevitable way of life; a high-level economic conference which must be aborted; a CIA operative seasoned in all things except the double cross-these are the principal elements in this intense and informed novel of government underworlds today.

What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo's most enigmatic librarian. For Sayuri Komachi is able to sense exactly what each visitor to her library is searching for and provide just the book recommendation to help them find it. A restless retail assistant looks to gain new skills, a mother tries to overcome demotion at work after maternity leave, a conscientious accountant yearns to open an antique store, a recently retired salaryman searches for newfound...

A short, sleek novel of encounters set in the witching hours of Tokyo between midnight and dawn, and every bit as gripping as Haruki Murakami's masterworks The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Kafka on the Shore. At its center are two sisters: Yuri, a fashion model sleeping her way into oblivion; and Mari, a young student soon led from solitary reading at an anonymous Denny's into lives radically alien to her own: those of a jazz trombonist who claims...