Not Raw Enough: A novel of Japan
Book Details
Author(s)Randall Bowling
ISBN / ASIN1463553609
ISBN-139781463553609
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷
Description
Exporting live fluke from Hatteras Island to Japan's exclusive sushi markets always meant more to Seth Tinsley; more complex, more cutthroat and more crazy profits than he'd ever imagined. Yeah, he probably stepped on a few of the Old Boy's toes with his cutting-edge shipping technology and brash successes, but quality, price and smarts still trump time-worn systems and traditions - even at Tokyo's Tsukiji market. That's the American way, right? Seth never considered his international trade could mean more deadly.
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After an inexplicable accident in his hot tub kills two friends, Seth exhausts his life savings defending unwarranted murder charges. With his acquittal, Seth comes to terms with the randomness of a twisted fate and is ready to move on. Â When Seth barely escapes a bizarre incident that kills his partners, his life spirals away from reality and his thriving sales to Japan dwindle. The police can't explain the accidents and Seth still doesn't accept being the common thread in these tragic deaths.
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An astounding buy-out offer for his troubled export business from an Osaka conglomerate interrupts Seth's grief and in a desperate need for the cash to launch a secret aquatic technology he'd nurtured for a year, Seth goes against his instincts and accepts the stunning deal. As he readies to complete the sale of his company and host an exhibition for his new industry altering products in Japan, Seth becomes indebted to an agent of an obscure US Government bureau and is then coerced into cooperating with their 'Driftnet Investigation'. Â
On the business trip of a lifetime, Seth ends up alone and hunted in Japan; wanted for mass-murder and an expendable pawn of the US Government. He finally realizes that he is the prey of a powerful faction unleashing a lethal gambit to control Japan's sixty-billion dollar seafood industry. Â Seth at last concedes that business is war and weighs the cost of winning - or revenge.
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After an inexplicable accident in his hot tub kills two friends, Seth exhausts his life savings defending unwarranted murder charges. With his acquittal, Seth comes to terms with the randomness of a twisted fate and is ready to move on. Â When Seth barely escapes a bizarre incident that kills his partners, his life spirals away from reality and his thriving sales to Japan dwindle. The police can't explain the accidents and Seth still doesn't accept being the common thread in these tragic deaths.
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An astounding buy-out offer for his troubled export business from an Osaka conglomerate interrupts Seth's grief and in a desperate need for the cash to launch a secret aquatic technology he'd nurtured for a year, Seth goes against his instincts and accepts the stunning deal. As he readies to complete the sale of his company and host an exhibition for his new industry altering products in Japan, Seth becomes indebted to an agent of an obscure US Government bureau and is then coerced into cooperating with their 'Driftnet Investigation'. Â
On the business trip of a lifetime, Seth ends up alone and hunted in Japan; wanted for mass-murder and an expendable pawn of the US Government. He finally realizes that he is the prey of a powerful faction unleashing a lethal gambit to control Japan's sixty-billion dollar seafood industry. Â Seth at last concedes that business is war and weighs the cost of winning - or revenge.
