A classic slice of Japanese hard-boiled noir paying homage to the
master of the genre: Raymond Chandler The Wrong Goodbye pits
homicide detective Eiji Futamura against a shady Chinese business
empire and U.S. military intelligence in the docklands of recession
Japan. After the frozen corpse of immigrant barman Tran Binh Long
washes up in midsummer near Yokosuka U.S. Navy Base, Futamura meets
a strange customer from Tran's bar. Vietnam vet pilot Billy Lou
Bonney talks Futamura into hauling three suitcases of "goods" to
Yokota US Air Base late at night and flies off leaving a dead woman
behind. Thereby implicated in a murder suspect's escape and
relieved from active duty, Futamura takes on hack work for the
beautiful concert violinist Aileen Hsu, a "boat people" orphan
whose Japanese adoption mother has mysteriously gone missing. And
now a phone call from a bestselling yakuza author, a one-time black
marketeer in Saigon, hints at inside information on "former
Vietcong mole" Tran and his "old sidekick" Billy Lou, both of whom
crossed a triad tycoon who is buying up huge tracts of Mekong Delta
marshland for a massive development scheme. As the loose strands
flashback to Vietnam, the string of official lies and mysterious
allegiances build into a dark picture of the U.S.-Japan postwar
alliance. Translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum
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