A riveting true-life tale of newspaper noir and Japanese organized crime from an American investigative journalist.
But when his final scoop exposed a scandal that reverberated all the way from the neon soaked streets of Tokyo.
Jake Adelstein is the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police Press Club, where for twelve years he covered the dark side of Japan: extortion, murder, human trafficking, fiscal corruption, and of course, the yakuza.
A riveting true-life tale of newspaper noir and Japanese organized crime from an American investigative journalist