Tokyo Traffic

In Tokyo, street smarts aren't always enough.

Gold Medallion Book Readers Appreciation Group (B.R.A.G.) (2020)

Long-listed Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book (2020)

Reviewer's Choice Feathered Quill Book Awards (2020)

Winner Thriller Independent Press Award (2021)

Winner Thriller National Indie Excellence Awards (2021)

First Runner-Up Eric Hoffer Award 2021

Sukanya, a young Thai girl, escapes into Tokyo. With her Bangkok street smarts, she stays ahead of traffickers willing to do anything to recover the computer she took when she fled a murder scene. After befriending Chiho, a Japanese girl living in an internet caf?, Sukanya tries to rid herself of her pursuers, and her past, forever.

Detective Hiroshi Shimizu leaves the safe confines of his office to investigate a triple murder at a porn studio. The studio's accounts point him in multiple directions at once. Together with ex-sumo wrestler Sakaguchi and old-school Takamatsu, Hiroshi tracks the killers through Tokyo's teen hangouts, bayside docks, and crowded squares, straight into the underbelly of the global economy.

As bodies wash up from Tokyo Bay, Hiroshi tries to find the Thai girl whose name he doesn't even know. He uncovers trafficking rings and cryptocurrency scammers whose connections extend to the highest levels of Tokyo's power elite.

"A first-rate hardboiled crime novel."-Best Thrillers

Tokyo Traffic is the third book in the Tokyo-based Detective Hiroshi series by award-winning author Michael Pronko.

About the Author
Pronko, Michael: - Michael Pronko is a Tokyo-based author who writes in three genres-murder, memoir and music. He has written about Japanese culture, art, jazz, society, architecture and politics for Newsweek Japan, The Japan Times, Artscape Japan, as well as other publications. He has appeared on NHK and Nippon Television doing video versions of his essays. He runs his own website, Jazz in Japan (www.jazzinjapan.com). He teaches American Literature and Culture (novels, film, art and music) at Meiji Gakuin University in Tokyo and after discussing Kurt Vonnegut or Jackson Pollock in class is in the right frame of mind to wander Tokyo contemplating its intensity.