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)
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 café, 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.