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This slickly plotted, exotically atmospheric thriller opens in Tokyo just a few days before bombs start raining on Pearl Harbor. There we meet roguish Harry Niles, the culturally conflicted son of religious missionaries and owner of the Happy Paris, a club known for its enigmatic jukebox jockey, Michiko, who also happens to be Harry's mistress. With war rumors rampant, Harry--distrusted by both U.S. and Japanese authorities--"was skipping town. Any sane person would." He has a seat waiting on what may be the final flight out to Hong Kong, and plans to escape from there to the States with a British diplomat's wife. But first, there are business and personal affairs to settle, not the least of which is an oil-tank con he's been running on the Imperial Navy--a desperate strategy to stop his beloved Japan from entering into self-destructive conflict with America. Harry also has to duck a sword-wielding military fanatic, who's seeking revenge for a long-ago incident that cost him honor, and bid sayonara to Michiko, a woman as scary as she is seductive. (Oh, well, at least they'll always have the Happy Paris.)
This book memorably re-creates wartime Tokyo, with its pet beetles and mincing geishas and naive belief that "victory lies in a faith in victory." Yet it's Harry Niles--cynical on top, sentimental beneath--who really carries December 6, a novel as brilliantly convoluted and captivating as any Smith (Gorky Park , Havana Bay ) has yet concocted. --J. Kingston Pierce
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Book Description mass_market. Condition: new. First Thus. From the New York Times bestselling author of Gorky Park and Havana Bay comes another gripping novel of loyalty betrayal and intrigue on the eve of the greatest military conflict in the history of mankind DECEMBER 6Amid the imperialist fervor of late 1941 Tokyo Harry Niles is a man with a mission selfpreservation But Niles was raised by missionary parents and educated in the shadows of Tokyos underworld making his loyalties as dubious as his business dealingsNow on the eve of the attack on Pearl Harbor Niles must decide where his true allegiances lie as he tries to juggle his Japanese mistress and an adulterous affair with the wife of a British diplomat avoid a modernday samurai who is honorbound to kill him and survive the machinations of the Japanese high command whose plans for conquest may just dictate his survivalSet in a maelstrom of personal temptations and mortal enemies with a remarkable antihero caught in a land he can never call his own DECEMBER 6 is a triumph of imagination history and riveting storytelling. Seller Inventory # DADAX0671775928
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