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Book Synopsis''The Last Yakuza might be a work of non-fiction, but it reads more like a thriller... a gripping read'' - Irish News
''Sacred, ferocious, and businesslike, Adelstein describes the Japanese mafia like nobody else'' Roberto Saviano, on Tokyo Vice
Makoto Saigo is half-American and half-Japanese in small-town Japan with a set of talents limited to playing guitar and picking fights. With rock stardom off the table, he turns toward the only place where you can start from the bottom and move up through sheer merit, loyalty, and brute force - the yakuza.
Saigo, nicknamed Tsunami, quickly realizes that even within the organization, opinions are as varied as they come, and a clash of philosophies can quickly become deadly. One screw-up can cost you your life, or at least a finger.
The internal politics of the yakuza are dizzyingly complex, and between the ever-shifting web of alliances and the encroaching hand of the law that pushes the
Trade Review
'Adelstein tells Saigo's story with a relish for its comic aspects [and] an understated feeling for its pathos... one comes away from The Last Yakuza finding its subject not just sympathetic, but even lovable' * Telegraph *
'The Last Yakuza might be a work of non-fiction, but it reads more like a thriller... a gripping read' * Irish News *
