Michael Pronko
Auteur van The Last Train
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- Gangbare naam
- Pronko, Michael
- Officiële naam
- Pronko, Michael Jackson
- Geboortedatum
- 1960-05-06
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Land (voor op de kaart)
- Tokyo, Japan
- Geboorteplaats
- Kansas City, Kansas, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Tokyo, Japan
- Opleiding
- Brown University, University of Kansas, University of Wisconsin Madison, University of Kent Canterbury
- Beroepen
- Professor of American Literature and Culture, writer
- Korte biografie
- Pronko writes about Japanese culture, art, jazz, society, architecture and politics for Newsweek Japan, The Japan Times, Artscape Japan, as well as other venues. He has appeared on NHK and Nippon Television and teaches American Literature and Culture at Meiji Gakuin University in Tokyo.
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- Werken
- 9
- Leden
- 158
- Populariteit
- #133,026
- Waardering
- 4.0
- Besprekingen
- 26
- ISBNs
- 22
When the book begins, we have Patrick Walsh sneaking into what was once his apartment in Tokyo to abduct his two daughters, Jenna and Kiri. Patrick had been sent to Wyoming for work, and stayed a bit longer than one would have expected. While he was gone, his wife, Miyuki, got some pictures in the mail of Patrick in compromising positions with a blonde. She has filed for divorce. She's out when Patrick sneaks in. But, he is interrupted by the entrance of Taiga, the babysitter. Patrick plonks him one and leaves Taiga in a room with the girls' grandmother. A few hours later, Miyuki comes home to find Taiga in a coma and her mother dead.
The police get on it, and the first thing that comes to mind is to track Patrick down. Just about the same time, Leung, who runs a financial firm called the Nine Dragons, is found murdered in his office. Are the two crimes related?
We go back and forth between the police's trying to find Patrick and his daughters, Patrick's trying to smuggle his daughters out of the country and back to Wyoming, and various activities on the part of several sets of shady characters, who might also have some stake in Patrick's activities.
Well, I'll stop here. This book was part police procedural and part thriller, and rather engaging. It probably deserves to be listed as *** .… (meer)