Josef Tanaka, Japanese-American medical examiner, returns to Japan for the first time in fifteen years to attend his brother’s funeral. And learns what even his father is concealing - that Hiro was brutally, savagely murdered.
Determined to discover the truth, Josef must first re-learn his Japanese self before he can hope to find a way forward. With the misguided help of his friend, American detective William Fogarty, he plunges into the twilight of Tokyo’s underworld, dominated by the sinister, semi-official gangland of the Yakuza, and home to a merciless programme of murder.
And as Josef and Fogarty draw closer to his identity, the Leopard is watching, waiting - for the perfect moment to seduce, and so more thoroughly destroy . . .