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Tokyo Doll: A Hardboiled Novel of Intrigue and Obsession
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781515425458
Publisher: Black Curtain Press
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A hard-edged noir thriller set in postwar Japan, where desire, deception, and danger intersect in the shadow of occupation.
In Tokyo Doll, John McPartland delivers a taut, atmospheric novel steeped in mid-century suspense. An American caught in a web of intrigue finds himself navigating the uneasy terrain of postwar Tokyo-a city rebuilding itself while secrets, black markets, and shifting loyalties thrive beneath the surface. What begins as attraction quickly deepens into peril as criminal interests and personal obsession collide.
McPartland writes with the clipped precision of classic pulp noir, yet his setting lends the story an added layer of cultural and political tension. The novel captures both the exotic allure Western readers once projected onto postwar Japan and the moral ambiguity that defines true noir fiction. In Tokyo Doll, trust is fragile, truth is negotiable, and survival often depends on knowing when to walk away.
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