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In this novel by the editor of the esteemed literary journal Ploughshares, the disappearance of a young half-American, half-Japanese woman leads to Tokyo's thriving sex trade. The American Embassy representative assigned to her case is enmeshed in a tangle of sex and lies, and the Japanese cop he works with is an iffy figure with his own strange secrets. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.