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The Little Tokyo Informant

by Andrew Rosenheim

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  • Published Aug 2013
    400 pages
    Genre: Thrillers

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Autumn, 1941. At a secret meeting in Washington, FBI Assistant Director Harry Guttman is told that the Soviet Union has been infiltrating the highest levels of the United States government. Fifty thousand dollars has been wired by Russian intelligence officers in New York to a Japanese bank in Los Angeles, but the trail goes cold. Special Agent Jimmy Nessheim knows a local informant who's willing to help, but he vanishes mysteriously overnight. Nessheim's frantic search leads him through the dense streets of LA's Little Tokyo to a risky undercover gambit in Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese surprise attack.

Hailed as the "successor to Frederick Forsyth" (Independent), Andrew Rosenheim shifts his focus from the homegrown Nazi threats in Fear Itself to the looming threat of war with Japan in the last days of peace before Pearl Harbor awoke the sleeping giant. The Informant is a well researched and skillfully rendered portrait of America on the cusp of the world stage.

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"Starred Review. Rosenheim is even better this time out at melding interesting leads with a thrilling story line and vivid descriptions of such locales as L.A.'s Little Tokyo." - Publishers Weekly

"The ghosts of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler loom large here, as do the classic films Chinatown and Casablanca, lending Rosenheim's prose a velvety texture." - Kirkus

"Andrew Rosenheim's The Little Tokyo Informant is a stylish, ingenious thriller. This is compelling and intelligent fiction, laden with tension and suspense." - Jim Crace, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Being Dead

"Andrew Rosenheim's The Little Tokyo Informant is a wonderfully intelligent and beautifully written historical thriller - I can't wait for the next installment in the series!" - Max Byrd, author of The Paris Deadline and California Thriller

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Andrew Rosenheim

Andrew Rosenheim grew up in Chicago and in a small town in Michigan. He went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar in 1977. For many years he worked in publishing, at Oxford University Press and Penguin Books among others, and is now a full-time writer. He is married with twin daughters.

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