After their American missionary parents are murdered in China in 1835, Noah and Mary Cole are given passage out of China on an American merchant ship bound for Hawaii. Before their ship can reach its destination, it is attacked by Chinese pirates. Noah is thrown into the ocean, and Mary is taken captive and eventually sold to a bordello in Yoshiwara, the centuries-old Japanese pleasure quarter. Noah is rescued by a Dutch ship bound for Dejima, the manmade island in Nagasaki Bay, where the Dutch and the Chinese are allowed to trade with the Japanese but not allowed to leave the island and enter Japan. In Dejima, Noah learns that his sister may be in Yoshiwara, and despite overwhelming odds, he sets out on a perilous journey to rescue her.

"The Pachinko Connection" takes the reader into a world of espionage, extortion and perversion, as CIA operative Adam Carver and pachinko parlor owner Noriko Kaneda attempt to follow the trail of money extorted from gambling halls in Japan and sent to North Korea, where, it is suspected, it is being used to help fund the development and sale of weapons of mass destruction.

Amerasian nightclub hostess, Lana Reyes, and Mark Shaffer, an unemployed American living in Japan, follow a trail of danger and death as they compete with a "yakuza" criminal organization in the search for a horde of gold hidden in the Philippines by the Japanese Imperial Army during the final days of the Second World War.

Yoshiwara, the centuries-old pleasure quarter in Tokyo, is the backdrop for a story set in Japan on the eve of the Second World War, where an American journalist, recruited by the Office of Naval Intelligence becomes entangled in a web of espionage and murder that includes; a woman sold to a bordello in Yoshiwara, who falls in love with the journalist; a female serial killer, who stalks and kills patrons of Yoshiwara; a husband and wife, members of Japan's outcast society, the Burakumin, who agree to work for ONI in exchange for safe passage out of Japan; and an officer in the Japanese secret police, the Kempei Tai, who suspects that the journalist and the Burakumin couple are spies.

Sumiko Harada, a poverty-stricken Japanese young woman and her father find a key and a letter on the body of a woman accidentally killed on a street in Tokyo.

Sumiko's father uses the key to open a train-station locker where he finds a diary written by a sadistic serial killer who believes he is "Akuma," the Japanese mythological devil who can bring misfortune to all who see him.

Sumiko uses the information in the letter and the dead-woman's identity to get a lucrative job at a popular nightclub where she meets Mark Kellner, an American journalist working in Japan. When the killer learns of Sumiko's ruse, Sumiko and Mark are drawn into a web of terror spun by a madman who will use any means, no matter how cruel, to get his diary before it becomes public information.

While following clues they find on a computer disk stolen by a corporate extortionist, American journalist, Luke Carter, and news service company heiress, Sabrina Morgan, become entangled in a deadly and dangerous web of international intrigue, industrial espionage, and Japan's underworld.

An ancient artifact from a previously unknown archeological site threatens to contradict a basic tenet of Japanese history. When the artifact falls into the hands of American journalist, Matt Davis, Takeo Kimura, a successful industrialist, sets in motion a series of deadly events in an attempt to keep the artifact's secret from ever being revealed.

China, 1939, a country besieged by war and poverty while its most modern city, Shanghai, openly displays wealth and decadence is the backdrop for a story of murder, treachery and the search for a priceless artifact, a jade and gold burial suit made two millenniums earlier for Chin Shih-huang- ti, the first emperor of China.

Tami Tanaka finds a journal written by her granduncle, the commander of a Japanese submarine lost while on a secret mission during the Second World War. The journal raises many shocking questions and is the catalyst that propels Tami and ex Navy SEAL, Rick Hunter, on a perilous journey in search of sunken treasure.

Set in Korea, Hong Kong, and Macau, "White Lotus" is the story of Amerasian twins who were separated at birth and raised on opposite sides of the world. The twins reunite after twenty-four years only to be drawn into the deadly world of an undercover DEA agent investigating a Chinese secret society involved in illegal drugs, money laundering, and prostitution.

Set in Korea, Hong Kong, and Macau, "White Lotus" is the story of Amerasian twins who were separated at birth and raised on opposite sides of the world. The twins reunite after twenty-four years only to be drawn into the deadly world of an undercover DEA agent investigating a Chinese secret society involved in illegal drugs, money laundering, and prostitution.

China and Japan in the 1830s, two countries where entry into the country by foreigners is either prohibited or their movement within the country severely restricted, is the backdrop for the story of Noah Cole's attempt to rescue his sister, Mary, after pirates kidnap her. Noah follows Mary's trail from the South China Sea to the manmade island, Dejima, in Nagasaki Bay, where only Dutch and Chinese merchants are allowed. From Dejima, Mary's trail leads to a bordello inside Yoshiwara, the centuries-old Japanese pleasure quarter. Noah must now find a way to enter Japan, where foreigners could be executed if found in the country without permission from the shogunate, something rarely given. A fast-paced action/adventure story, set in China and Japan in the 1830s, about a brothers quest to rescue his sister.

Tami Tanaka finds a journal written by her granduncle, the commander of a Japanese submarine lost while on a secret mission during the Second World War. The journal raises many shocking questions and is the catalyst that propels Tami and ex Navy SEAL, Rick Hunter, on a perilous journey in search of sunken treasure.

Sumiko Harada, a poverty-stricken Japanese young woman and her father find a key and a letter on the body of a woman accidentally killed on a street in Tokyo.

Sumiko's father uses the key to open a train-station locker where he finds a diary written by a sadistic serial killer who believes he is "Akuma," the Japanese mythological devil who can bring misfortune to all who see him.

Sumiko uses the information in the letter and the dead-woman's identity to get a lucrative job at a popular nightclub where she meets Mark Kellner, an American journalist working in Japan. When the killer learns of Sumiko's ruse, Sumiko and Mark are drawn into a web of terror spun by a madman who will use any means, no matter how cruel, to get his diary before it becomes public information.

An ancient artifact from a previously unknown archeological site threatens to contradict a basic tenet of Japanese history. When the artifact falls into the hands of American journalist, Matt Davis, Takeo Kimura, a successful industrialist, sets in motion a series of deadly events in an attempt to keep the artifact's secret from ever being revealed.

While following clues they find on a computer disk stolen by a corporate extortionist, American journalist, Luke Carter, and news service company heiress, Sabrina Morgan, become entangled in a deadly and dangerous web of international intrigue, industrial espionage, and Japan's underworld.

Amerasian nightclub hostess, Lana Reyes, and Mark Shaffer, an unemployed American living in Japan, follow a trail of danger and death as they compete with a "yakuza" criminal organization in the search for a horde of gold hidden in the Philippines by the Japanese Imperial Army during the final days of the Second World War.

China, 1939, a country besieged by war and poverty while its most modern city, Shanghai, openly displays wealth and decadence is the backdrop for a story of murder, treachery and the search for a priceless artifact, a jade and gold burial suit made two millenniums earlier for Chin Shih-huang- ti, the first emperor of China.

"The Pachinko Connection" takes the reader into a world of espionage, extortion and perversion, as CIA operative Adam Carver and pachinko parlor owner Noriko Kaneda attempt to follow the trail of money extorted from gambling halls in Japan and sent to North Korea, where, it is suspected, it is being used to help fund the development and sale of weapons of mass destruction.

Yoshiwara, the centuries-old pleasure quarter in Tokyo, is the backdrop for a story set in Japan on the eve of the Second World War, where an American journalist, recruited by the Office of Naval Intelligence becomes entangled in a web of espionage and murder that includes; a woman sold to a bordello in Yoshiwara, who falls in love with the journalist; a female serial killer, who stalks and kills patrons of Yoshiwara; a husband and wife, members of Japan's outcast society, the Burakumin, who agree to work for ONI in exchange for safe passage out of Japan; and an officer in the Japanese secret police, the Kempei Tai, who suspects that the journalist and the Burakumin couple are spies.