The second blistering Elvis Cole novel from the bestselling author of THE FIRST RULE. Bradley Warren had lost something very valuable, something that belonged to someone else: a rare thirteenth-century Japanese manuscript called the Hagakure. Everything PI Elvis Cole knew about Japanese culture hed learned from reading SHOGUN, but he knew a lot of crooks - and what he didnt know, his sidekick Joe Pike did. Together, Cole and Pike begin their search in L.A.s Little Tokyo, the nest of the notorious Japanese mafia, the Yakuza - and find themselves caught up in a white-knuckled adventure filled with madness, murder and sexual obsession. Just another days work for Elvis Cole...