Summary
Martin Cruz Smith: Spy Base Tokyo
In a notorious part of Tokyo, the Sretni Paris nightclub has a good reputation, a meeting place of expensive prostitutes, Japanese officers and Western diplomats eager to have a good time, where the mysterious Michiko chooses the music. The owner of the club is Harry Niles, the child of American missionaries. A foreigner by birth, Japanese by upbringing, Harry has never fully belonged to either of his two homelands. Even now, a few days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, he does not feel a conflict of loyalties within him. After it became clear to him that the war between America and Japan is inevitable, Harry will try to escape on the last flight to Hong Kong, but before that he has to evade both sides because everyone thinks he is working for the other. What is it like to live as a white, gaijin, in the strict pre-war Japanese society? What is the untold history of Tokyo at the beginning of World War II? And who does Harry Niles actually work for?
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