Japan Thriller

A murdered princess. A buried secret. A spy with one chance to stop a war. 1975. The Empire of Japan never fell—and neither did its ghosts. When a royal assassination shatters the illusion of order, disgraced intelligence officer Major Suzuki Wataru is pulled back into the field. His mission: uncover the truth—or take the fall. In the decaying shadows of Manchukuo, Suzuki’s only ally is Lieutenant Park Ji-won, a sharp Korean operative with secrets as deep as the Empire’s own. Together, they follow a trail of betrayal that could fracture the global balance of power between Imperial ...

The critically acclaimed international bestselling novel by one of Japan's premier storytellers, Keigo Higashino's The Devotion of Suspect X marks the first book in his beloved Detective Galileo mysteries. "One of the great mystery and thriller books of all time!" (Time) Yasuko Hanaoka is a...

Clancy plunges hero Jack Ryan into nonstop high adventure, as two seemingly unrelated occurrences being a chain of events that will stun the world...

Ring of Fire Series Book 2 Two months after Alaska, the earth is restless again. Off the coast of Japan, the Pacific begins to boil. Gas vents rip open the seafloor along the Japan Trench. Deep tremors roll beneath Tokyo. Then the rupture comes—a megathrust earthquake powerful enough to shift the planet’s balance. But the quake is only the beginning. Volcanoes erupt in sequence across Japan’s arc. Tsunamis hammer the coast. Ash swallows the sky. Across the western Pacific, the Philippines and Indonesia begin to stir. Geologist Sam Shore and volcanologist Irina Toropova recognize the ...

EDO NOIR FROM THE TOKUGAWA ERA Osaka, the 1760s. Two men arrive after dark at a canal-side guardhouse, looking for a room. One is a gruff tile-maker from Edo named Karakusa Gingorō. The other is his man Taichi, who is carrying a great deal of money and would prefer not to be murdered for it. They are bound for Awa — the sealed domain on the island of Shikoku that forbids entry to outsiders — on a mission to find a vanished spy whose disappearance, ten years ago, left behind a grieving daughter and an unanswered question that could bring down the shogunate. They do not know that a woman...

From New York Times Bestselling author (creator of the Netflix series V Wars), Jonathan Maberry comes the first in a brand new series featuring Joe Ledger and Rogue Team International. A small island off the coast of Korea is torn apart by a bioweapon that drives everyone—men, women, and...

Nicholai Hel-genius, mystic, and the perfect formidable assassin returns in this blockbuster thriller from the #1 bestselling author of Shibumi. "Winslow imbues the James Bond-esque superspy atmosphere with a deep knowledge of Eastern cultures, including the ancient Japanese game of Go. There is...

The author of the bestselling NUMA and Dirk Pitt series returns with an all-new novel of adventure and intrigue featuring his unbeatable hero of the high seas—Juan Cabrillo. Cabrillo and his motley crew aboard the clandestine spy ship Oregon have made a very comfortable and very dangerous...

"For much of her life, sixteen-year-old Makai Akira had been alone and alienated by those around her. Shunned by her peers, bullied at school, and overburdened with chores at home, her life was truly miserable. That all changed for her when she met Asano Tomoe, a new face in their small town. The two quickly became friends, though their newfound friendship would soon be put to the test. Following a tragic incident at their school, Akira found herself accused of murder. Armed with the truth of what happened, she’s now faced with a decision; return to her old, lonely life, or forge ahead, ...

A summer on a remote US air base in Okinawa is the last place teenager Kyle Taylor wants to be. Trapped in the oppressive heat and the even more oppressive silence of his father’s empty guest quarters, he’s a prisoner of paradise. But when he falls in with a group of military brats who know the island’s secrets, Kyle discovers a new, more dangerous kind of prison. Deep in the off-limits jungle lies a sealed Japanese command bunker, a tomb untouched since the final days of World War II. Lured by the thrill of exploring a place no one has entered for eighty years, the teens break the ...

A pitch-black, Dexter-like thriller with a razor-sharp skewering of our darkest fantasies, in which a Tokyo paparazzo commits murders to generate the photos his magazine’s readership ghoulishly demands. Ken Kato is a half-British, half-Japanese photojournalist working for a low-brow weekly...

A torpedo is in the water, and the fifty men about to die do not officially exist. Ten days earlier, a North Korean Romeo-class submarine slips out of Wonsan on a night tide. She is thirty years obsolete, running on a battery that no longer holds a full charge, and she carries sealed orders and a passenger: a defector with thirty years of secrets and a bottle of vodka rationed by the day, like the amps. Captain Ryu is ordered north. He turns south instead, through the Tsushima Strait, because it is the last route anyone will expect. It works, and it ruins him. Within four days Pyongyang has...

Malice is one of the bestselling—and acclaimed—novels in Keigo Higashino's series featuring police detective Kyochiro Kaga, one of the most popular fictional creations in Asia. Acclaimed bestselling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally murdered in his home on the night before he's...

“A deliciously twisted thriller that blends culinary obsession with moral horror . . . This novel savors excess, class, and complicity . . . and leaves you squirming.”—Dua Lipa’s Service95 What would you do for a seat at the table? They will kill me soon, Edward Cook thinks. And when the...

This explosive standalone thriller from the world's #1 bestselling author follows ex-Secret Service agent Cain Lemaire as he uncovers dark secrets hidden beneath the Tokyo streets. The Bayou is a unique place to live and it provides a grit and passion to any who hail from it, including Cain...

IT BEGAN WITH SIX STONES . . . From the deserts of Israel to the tsunami-lashed coasts of Japan, from the steppes of Mongolia to the most mysterious island on Earth—this is what we have come to expect from Matthew Reilly: stupendous action, white-knuckle suspense, heroes to cheer for, and an...

A taut psychological thriller about the hidden demons that guide our convictions, our biases, and our deepest desires, available in English for the first time from “Japan’s Agatha Christie.” (The Sunday Times) In the middle of the night, a car drives off a pier. An elderly man drowns, but...

From the author of the internationally bestselling, award-winning The Devotion of Suspect X comes the next novel featuring "Detective Galileo." The Devotion of Suspect X was a hit with critics and readers alike. The first major English language publication from the most popular bestselling...

At 0610 on 3 November 1983, a rusting submarine breaks the surface off Kannonzaki with her flag up, her decks manned, and nine knots on the log — inside the gun arcs of two navies. She is not sneaking. She is arriving. The last night runs on small things. Two letters written at a wardroom table, one in English and one in Korean, for the case where only paper survives. A cassette played once with everyone pretending not to listen. A ballast calculation for a single rise at dawn, worked by hands that have not been steady in a week. Ashore it runs on smaller things still. A tasking order ...

Jun Nakayama was a silent-film star in the early days of Hollywood. By 1964, he is living in complete obscurity, until a young writer, Nick Bellinger, tracks him down for an interview. When Bellinger reveals that he has written a screenplay with Nakayama in mind, Jun is intrigued by the possibility of returning to movies. But he begins to worry that someone might delve too deeply into the past and uncover the events that abruptly ended his career in 1922. Like the changing social and racial tides in California - and the unsolved murder of his favorite director.