BOOK 3 OF JOHN STEELE‘S JACKIE SHAW SERIES
PURSUED BY RUTHLESS KILLERS AND TORMENTED BY HIS OWN DEMONS, WILL JACKIE SHAW GET OUT OF JAPAN ALIVE?
‘An astonishing achievement in story telling. It takes a brave writer to set a crime novel in contemporary Japan, a place as bewildering and opaque to most westerners as the dark side of the moon; and it takes a brilliant writer to pull it off with verve and class and make you race to turn the pages. John Steele is both. Highly recommended’ — Jake Needham, Amazon #1 bestselling author of The Mean Streets of Asia Crime Novels
‘DRY RIVER captures a sense of place with such vivid, visceral, and violent detail that you can smell the sweat, the blood, and the wasabi.’ RAYMOND BENSON
‘A fast, compulsive crime thriller. Recommended for readers who love this genre’ SHALINI’S BOOKS & REVIEWS
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When ex-undercover agent Jackie Shaw visits northern Japan for a holiday, he is in search of relaxation, an escape from the brutality and tragedy of his past.
But when a local man is butchered as he spies on a young woman in the seedy heart of Sapporo’s entertainment district, Jackie is dragged into the hunt for a terrifying serial killer and begins a long and bloody battle with vicious yakuza gangs.
From the twisted underbelly of one of Japan’s largest cities to the vast, unforgiving wilderness of the northern territories of Hokkaido, DRY RIVER is a uniquely menacing and compulsive thriller which will take you to places you’ve never been before.
If you like Barry Eisler, Mark Dawson, Adrian McKinty or James Clavell, you’ll love John Steele’s books. DRY RIVER is the third book in John’s Jackie Shaw series and the most gripping yet.
