Nominated for the Folio Prize It is December 6 1941. America stands at the brink
of World War II. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bom
b Pearl Harbor.
Los Angeles has been a haven for loyal Japanese-Americans - b
ut now, war fever and race hate grip the city and the Japanese internment begins
. The hellish murder of a Japanese family summons three men and one woman. Willi
am H Parker is a captain on the Los Angeles Police.
He's superbly gifted, cor
rosively ambitious, liquored-up and consumed by dubious ideology. He is bitterly
at odds with Sergeant Dudley Smith - Irish emigre, ex-IRA killer, fledgling war
profiteer. Kay Lake is a 21-year-old dilettante looking for adventure.
Hideo
Ashida is a police chemist and the only Japanese on the L.A. cop payroll. The i
nvestigation throws them together and rips them apart.
