The Deal — Richard Setlowe

Arriving in Tokyo to secretly negotiate an historic business merger, attorney Peter Saxon discovers the government official he was scheduled to meet has been gruesomely murdered. Then Saxon himself becomes the target of strange, vicious attacks. Who wants to sabotage the deal? And who wants him dead?

Trapped by a wall of polite, steeled silence, Saxon's search for answers takes him to a place he thought he'd left behind thirty years ago: the brawling, hedonistic "Floating World" of post-war Japan where sex, violence, and culture collided. A place where a young Navy pilot fighting the Vietnam War and an exquisite Japanese cabaret girl named Lilli fell in love. A place where deadly enemies lurked in shadowed corners-enemies who've surfaced again to take brutal revenge...