The Time Of The Cricket: A Novel (without dust jacket)

The Story

The Time of the Cricket is set in Tokyo and follows the trail of Kay Williams, an American object d'art agent, and Cricket Kimura, Yakuza executioner for the Japanese mafia. Focusing on the legend and the present-day legacy of the sword of the Emperor Meiji, The Time of the Cricket goes deep under the tightly woven Japanese social fabric to reveal an underworld rarely seen - and rarely survived - by the unsuspecting traveler. The Time of the Cricket takes up themes that are at once topical and classic, mixing the modern with the medieval, in the context of an increasingly complex and deadly landscape.