Dreaming Pachinko

Tokyo, July 2001: Hard-boiled reporter Billy Chaka is back in the neon metropolis interviewing a has-been pop singer turned pachinko fanatic for Youth in Asia magazine. Looks like an easy assignment until he witnesses a beautiful young woman suffer a seizure in the Lucky Benten pachinko hall. When she is later found dead beneath the expressway, Chaka becomes embroiled in an apparent blackmail plot involving a Ministry of Construction official, a brash nineteen-year-old girl, a shadowy entity known only as Mr. Bojangles, and four silent figures who have a penchant for showing up uninvited inside Chaka's hotel room.

As the bodies pile up and the mystery deepens, Chaka must untangle the lies, obsessions, and seemingly supernatural events that link the dead woman to a forgotten, bloody incident from the desperate closing days of World War II. Spellbinding and hilarious, Dreaming Pachinko will take you on a surreal thrill- ride through the city of the future -- a place where no one can escape the past.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: 05/06/2003
ISBN: 9780060516239
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 8.12h x 5.44w x 0.94d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2003 pg. 548
Publishers Weekly 05/19/2003 pg. 51
Booklist 05/01/2003 pg. 1531