December 6: A Novel
Language: English
American Mystery & Suspense Fiction Americans - Japan Fiction Fiction - Espionage General Historical Historical - General Pearl Harbor (Hawaii); Attack on; 1941 Smith; Martin Cruz - Prose & Criticism Suspense fiction Thriller Thrillers Tokyo (Japan) War & Military War stories World War; 1939-1945 - Japan - Tokyo
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: Aug 12, 2008
Description:
SUMMARY: Amid the imperialist fervor of late 1941 Tokyo, Harry Niles is a man with a mission -- self-preservation. But Niles was raised by missionary parents and educated in the shadows of Tokyo's underworld -- making his loyalties as dubious as his business dealings.Now, on the eve of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Niles must decide where his true allegiances lie, as he tries to juggle his Japanese mistress and an affair with the wife of a British diplomat; avoid a modern-day samurai who is honor-bound to kill him; and survive the Japanese high command, whose plans for conquest may just dictate his survival.Set in a maelstrom of personal temptations and mortal enemies, with a remarkable anti-hero caught in a land he can never call his own, DECEMBER 6 is a triumph of imagination, history, and riveting storytelling.