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Makoto Saigo is half-American and half-Japanese in small-town Japan with a set of talents limited to playing guitar and picking fights. With rock stardom off the table, he turns toward the only place where you can start from the bottom and move up through sheer merit, loyalty, and brute force―the yakuza. Saigo, nicknamed “The Tsunami”, quickly realizes that even within the organization, opinions are as varied as they come, and a clash of philosophies can quickly become deadly. One screw-up can cost you your life, or at least a finger.

Even in hell, Bitcoin talks. This modern take on an old Japanese saying still holds true. Cryptocurrency was supposed to do for money what the internet did for information, but it didn't work out that way. Its virtual existence unleashed real-world chaos―especially in the homeland of its mysterious creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. Tokyo was the center of the world's largest Bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, until that company collapsed with nearly half a billion dollars' worth of Bitcoin gone missing. It might be the greatest heist in history. If it was a heist.

From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up. At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. What he got was a life...

It’s 2008, and it’s been a while since Jake Adelstein was the only gaijin crime reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun. The global economy is in shambles, Jake is off the police beat but still chain-smoking clove cigarettes, and Tadamasa Goto, the most powerful boss in the Japanese organized crime world, has been banished from the yakuza, giving Adelstein one less enemy to worry about—for the time being. But as he puts his life back together, he discovers that he may be no match for his greatest enemy—himself.

A young Congressman stumbles on the powerful political underworld of 1950's D.C. in this "potent thriller" (David Baldacci) and New York Times bestseller from CNN correspondent Jake Tapper. Charlie Marder is an unlikely Congressman. Thrust into office by his family ties after his predecessor...

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND GQ “A radical new history of the United States abroad” (Wall Street Journal) which uncovers U.S. complicity in the mass-killings of left-wing activists in Indonesia, Latin America and around the world In 1965, the US...

L’ancien journaliste d’investigation Jake Adelstein s’est reconverti en détective privé, traquant les yakuzas devenus hommes d’affaires. L’explosion de la centrale nucléaire de Fukushima rendra visible la corruption et la mainmise des yakuzas dans les affaires publiques du Japon. La violence et les menaces reviendront dans les enquêtes d’Adelstein, qui cherchera la vérité à tout prix.

Un journaliste américain sur le terrain de la police japonaise. Quand Jake Adelstein intègre en 1993 le service "police-justice" du plus grand quotidien japonais, le "Yomiuri Shinbun", il n'a que 24 ans et il est loin de maîtriser les codes de ce pays bien différent de son Missouri natal. À Tokyo, il couvre en étroite collaboration avec la police les affaires liées à la prostitution et au crime organisé. Pour cela, il n'hésite pas à s'enfoncer dans les quartiers rouges de la capitale, dans les entrailles du vice et de la décadence.

Every pirate knows that his spyglass is almost as important as his sword. So when Captain Hook loses his spyglass, he decides to borrow Jake's—forever! Danger lurks around every corner as Jake and his crew try to get their spyglass back from Captain Hook and the wild animals of the Never Jungle.

Jake is working at the neighborhood market under his apartment when the world ends. He expected nuclear war, a computer virus, or even climate change burning everyone to a crisp to bring about the downfall of civilization. But cruel and arbitrary gods from another world? Who would have guessed that? When these cruel gods shuffled Earth like a deck of cards, nothing was in the same place anymore. Monsters, dungeons, and magical items appear scattered across the globe. And suddenly, everyone has access to a new, strange magical card system that gives them magical powers.

THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Financial Times, Kirkus Reviews, and The Associated Press "Superbly reported . . . Reads like a Shakespearean drama on steroids." — Los Angeles Times "Explosive." —The New York Times "[The] most...

Abe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent Midwestern university and a man who glories in training the movers and shakers of the political world. He has lived grandly and ferociously - and much beyond his means. His close friend Chick has suggested that he put forth a book of his convictions about the ideas that sustain humankind, or kill it, and much to Ravelstein’s own surprise, he does and becomes a millionaire.

Terraforming planets was supposed to be boring... Nathalie Bryn, a seasoned terraformer, lives to shape alien worlds for humanity’s expansion. But when she uncovers a sinister conspiracy within the NEST Combine, her mission takes a deadly turn. As political intrigue and betrayal threaten the future of humanity, Nathalie must navigate a web of deceit to expose the truth. The stakes have never been higher, and the future of entire colonies hangs in the balance. Founder’s Day is a gripping sci-fi thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page.

A surgeon is murdered. Organs are missing. Someone is deciding who lives and who dies. When FBI consultant Jake Adler and veteran agent Dan huggard are called to Minneapolis, they uncover a deadly scheme inside the transplant system. Every missing organ leads to another body, and every link in the chain brings them closer to a killer who believes saving lives means killing for them.

A string of ritualistic murders across coastal Massachusetts leaves victims posed with eerie precision, each scene marked by an ancient wax seal. Forensic psychiatrist Jake Adler is drawn back into the darkness to decode a pattern that spans centuries, guided by maritime history, old bloodlines, and a chilling doctrine of "legacy cleansing." As the bodies mount and the killer closes in, Adler realizes this isn’t just a hunt, it’s a reckoning, and he may be next on the list.

A fourth-generation fisherman, Jake Anderson, grew up in the rich fishing environment of Anacortes, Washington. At age 17, Jake began salmon fishing in Bristol Bay, Alaska, and by the age of 25 he was crab fishing in the Bering Sea. Soon after, Jake became a deckhand on the F/V Northwestern and joined the popular television series Deadliest Catch. Aside from fishing, Jake has a harrowing story that has yet to be told. As an avid skateboarder, Jake aspired to become a professional until he was sidelined by injury, addiction, and homelessness.

A Jake Muller movie? Why not? When Jake takes his nephew Peter to Louisiana to see the filming of a movie about him, they also make plans to visit some friends. Julienne Cormier, who changed the course of his life, is one of them. So is his former Captain, whose health has taken a surprising turn. So why are young people disappearing? And what has driven Julienne’s best friend to apparent suicide? And what is all this talk about zombies? Battle lines are being drawn, and Jake Muller isn’t about to back off from a fight.

Jake arbeitet in einem Laden in einer kleinen Stadt, als die Welt untergeht. Er hatte erwartet, das ein Atomkrieg, ein Computervirus oder gar ein Klimawandel, der alle Menschen verbrennt, den Untergang der Zivilisation herbeiführen würde. Aber grausame und willkürliche Götter aus einer anderen Welt? Wer hätte das gedacht?