Product Description: A serial killer with a penchant for severed hands. A watch that runs backward and forward – at the same time. An Eastern European gangster known only as Rumplestiltskin. The Nazi invasion of Prague, Soviet-era Czech secret police, 16th century alchemy and black magic – mild-mannered American Lee Holloway never thought any of these would intrude upon his ordinary life...read more

Heading for Osaka to accept an award for an old article about a teenage bunraku puppetry prodigy, journalist Billy Chaka discovers that Tetsuo, the subject of his article, has been expelled from the theater company for a violent incident, a situation complicated by the brutal murder of an American in the hotel room next door. Original. 30,000 first printing.

In Tokyo on a simple assignment to interview one-hit wonder Gombei Fukugawa, who now devotes his time to playing pachinko, hard-nosed reporter Billy Chaka finds himself in the midst of a blackmail plot dating back to World War II.

While investigating the death of the lead singer of Japan's most popular rock band, found dead in a sleazy love hotel, Billy Chaka becomes embroiled with a Beatles-obsessed record executive, a former yakusa, a Swedish stripper, and a mute DJ as he uncovers a bizarre link between the rock star and a recently deceased hotel porter. Original. 35,000 first printing.

In Tokyo to cover a martial arts championship and to meet his hero Sato Migusho, a renowned director of pulp film classics, Billy Chaka, the brash star reporter for Cleveland's hottest Asian teen magazine, meets the girl of his dreams, discovers that Sato's been murdered, is pursued by tattooed mobsters, and is propositioned by a mysterious religious order. A first novel. Original.