The Pagan Mask — Tony Masero

Jason White is leading a quiet life as an art restorer and small time forger when an old friend from his East End days asks him to attend a strange ritual led by an underworld boss of the Japanese crime syndicate, the Yakuza. Jason is commissioned to take on an unusual mission of detection and for this he must use all his skills to track down a missing mask, an item of powerful mystical significance and possessing strange magical properties. The journey leads him down a troubled path discovering the serpentine history of the mask but vicious rival gangsters discover his intentions and are determined to stop him. Jason must call on his old criminal family connections to help him and what follows is an all out war between East and West on the streets of London.