December 6

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From Martin Cruz Smith, author of Gorky Park and Havana Bay, comes another audacious novel of exotic locales, intimate intrigues and the mysteries of the human heart: December 6. Set in the crazed, nationalistic Tokyo of late 1941, December 6 explores the coming world war through the other end of…

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Peter David Shapiro

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Also known as Tokyo Station (in the UK), December 6 by Martin Cruz Smith introduces us to Japan prior to its attack on Pearl Harbor. While Cruz Smith is a reliably excellent writer, he outdoes himself with this novel which builds slowly and powerfully to its conclusion.

He introduces us to movers and shakers in pre-war Japan in the overlapping worlds of night club entertainers, criminals, political and military leaders, and journalists and diplomats, all through the eyes of an American who grew up in Japan and understands and lives as Japanese while also remaining, unavoidably, a foreigner in a…

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