Tokyo Traffic
In Tokyo, street smarts aren't always enough.
Gold Medallion Book Readers Appreciation Group (B.R.A.G.) (2020)
Long-listed Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book (2020)
Reviewer's Choice Feathered Quill Book Awards (2020)
Winner Thriller Independent Press Award (2021)
Winner Thriller National Indie Excellence Awards (2021)
First Runner-Up Eric Hoffer Award 2021
Sukanya, a young Thai girl, escapes into Tokyo. With her Bangkok street smarts, she stays ahead of traffickers willing to do anything to recover the computer she took when she fled a murder scene. After befriending Chiho, a Japanese girl living in an internet café, Sukanya tries to rid herself of her pursuers, and her past, forever.
Detective Hiroshi Shimizu leaves the safe confines of his office to investigate a triple murder at a porn studio. The studio's accounts point him in multiple directions at once. Together with ex-sumo wrestler Sakaguchi and old-school Takamatsu, Hiroshi tracks the killers through Tokyo's teen hangouts, bayside docks, and crowded squares, straight into the underbelly of the global economy.
As bodies wash up from Tokyo Bay, Hiroshi tries to find the Thai girl whose name he doesn't even know. He uncovers trafficking rings and cryptocurrency scammers whose connections extend to the highest levels of Tokyo's power elite.
"A first-rate hardboiled crime novel."-Best Thrillers
Tokyo Traffic is the third book in the Tokyo-based Detective Hiroshi series by award-winning author Michael Pronko.
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Michael also runs the website, Jazz in Japan, which covers the vibrant jazz scene in Tokyo and Yokohama. During his 20 years in Japan, he has written about Japanese culture, art, society and politics for Newsweek Japan, The Japan Times, and Artscape Japan. He has read his essays on NHK TV and done programs for Nippon Television based on his writings.
A philosophy major, Michael traveled for years, ducking in and out of graduate schools, before finishing his PhD on Charles Dickens and film. He finally settled in Tokyo as a professor of American Literature at Meiji Gakuin University. His seminars focus on contemporary novels, short stories and film adaptations.
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"A first-rate hardboiled crime novel set at the nexus between porn, human trafficking, crypto-currency fraud and murder."-Best Thrillers
"Crime and mystery fans should definitely get to know Detective Hiroshi and the town he calls home."-Pacific Book Review
"A dark and striking thriller with an indelible cast and setting."-Kirkus Reviews
"A gripping thriller set in the criminal underbelly of Tokyo. Highly recommended!"-The Wishing Shelf
"The characters are superb. The city of Tokyo is very much a character in its own right. It's glorious."-The Bookbag
"Taut and terse, this noir novel is executed to perfection."-Foreword Clarion Reviews
