The wrong goodbye
Yahagi, Toshihiko, 1950-2021
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'The Wrong Goodbye' pits homicide detective Eiji Futamura against a shady Chinese business empire and U.S. military intelligence in the docklands of recession Japan. After the frozen corpse of immigrant barman Tran Binh Long washes up in midsummer near Yokosuka U.S. Navy Base, Futamura meets a strange customer from Tran's bar. Vietnam vet pilot Billy Lou Bonney talks Futamura into hauling three suitcases of 'goods' to Yokota US Air Base late at night and flies off leaving a dead woman behind. Thereby implicated in a murder suspect's escape and relieved from active duty, Futamura takes on hack work for the beautiful concert violinist Aileen Hsu, a 'boat people' orphan whose Japanese adoption mother has mysteriously gone missing.
Main title:
The wrong goodbye / Toshihiko Yahagi ; translated by Alfred Birnbaum.
Imprint:
London : MacLehose Press, 2021.London : MacLehose Press, 2021.
Collation:
384 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Japanese.
ISBN:
9781529400977 (hbk)
Language:
EnglishJapanese
BRN:
2439578