Jim Brodie is a part-time private investigator, since he
inherited half-ownership of Brodie Security, a detective
firm founded by his late father in Tokyo. He finds the
security business exciting and challenging, as well as
dangerous, but the acquisition and sale of Japanese antique
art is Brodie's first love. From his home base in San
Francisco, Brodie has been working with local officials
setting up an international art exhibit, the Pacific Rim
Friendship Program. Brodie has convinced his good friend
Ken Nobuki, a famous Japanese clay artist, to be a part of
the committee meeting. When a sniper targets Nobuki and
Brodie as they leave City Hall, Nobuki is shot and
hospitalized. Could this incident be connected to the
murder of Nobuki's oldest son a week earlier in Napa
Valley? When Brodie is made an official consultant for the
SFPD, he is again drawn into the world of crime and
violence. And his main priority is to protect the rest of
the Nobuki family.
Traveling to Japan, Brodie enlists the aid of the Brodie
Security team in finding out who is targeting the high-profile
profile Nobuki family—and why. Now the kill contract
includes Brodie, as well. It soon becomes apparent there's
a myriad of possible motives and suspects—Taiwanese
gangsters, the Japanese nuclear mafia, political rivals
over the Pacific Rim art project—but it's clear the
mythical Steam Walker is the assassin. It will take finely
honed, shrewd expertise for Brodie and his team to
apprehend a legendary killer who can vanish like smoke.
Barry Lancet's PACIFIC BURN is a stellar detective
thriller with a fast-paced, tense and complex storyline. I
have been a fan of the characters in this unique series
since I read/reviewed the first novel. With ample
descriptions of Brodie's multifaceted life, one does not
need to have read the first two books in the Jim Brodie
series, JAPANTOWN and TOKYO KILL, to enjoy PACIFIC BURN.
However, I suggest you do so, since both are excellent
detective thrillers and provide added insight into Brodie's
world of art collecting and PI work. I was mesmerized by
Lancet's descriptions of Japanese art, Japanese lifestyle
and customs, as well as the stunning locales of Japan and
San Francisco. It is obvious Lancet is familiar with Tokyo
and Japan, having lived there for over two decades, and I
felt this added a realistic dimension to the exciting plot.
Here's hoping Brodie's next thrilling adventure is as
intriguing as the first three have been.
In the third book in “what will likely be a long and
successful series” (San Francisco Magazine), Japanese
antiques dealer and PI Jim Brodie goes up against the CIA,
FBI, Department of Homeland Security—and a killer operating
on both sides of the Pacific.
In recognition for his
role in solving the Japantown murders in San Francisco,
antiques dealer and sometime-PI Jim Brodie has just been
brought on as the liaison for the mayor’s new Pacific Rim
Friendship Program. Brodie in turn recruits his friend, the
renowned Japanese artist Ken Nobuki, and after a promising
meeting with city officials and a picture-perfect photo op,
Brodie and Nobuki leave City Hall for a waiting limo.
But as soon as they exit the building, a sniper attacks
them from the roof of the Asian Art Museum. Quick thinking
allows Brodie to escape, but Nobuki ends up hospitalized and
in a coma. Brodie soon realizes that, with the suspicious
and untimely death of Nobuki’s oldest son a week earlier in
Napa Valley, someone may be targeting his friend’s
family—and killing them off one by one.
Suspects are
nearly too numerous to name—and could be in the United
States or anywhere along the Pacific Rim. The quest for
answers takes Brodie from his beloved San Francisco to
Washington, DC, in a confrontation with the DHS, the CIA,
and the FBI; then on to Tokyo, Kyoto, and beyond, in search
of what his Japanese sources tell him is a legendary killer
in both senses of the word—said to be more rumor than real,
but deadlier than anything else they’ve ever encountered
if the whispers are true.
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