Black Dragon

"Journalist Steve Knight has stumbled into a terrorist nightmare that seems destined to wipe out Japan's Imperial family and turn Asia's most stable democracy into a19th-century autocracy run by nationalist gangsters. The arch-villain of the story is a powerful right-wing leader who styles himself after the most notorious political mobster in Japanese history. He calls himself, after his dark hero, Lord Toyama, founder and leader of the dread Black Dragon Society. Only the Emperor can stop Toyama, and the Emperor is Toyama's target. Steve, his beautiful assistant, Mie Nishimura, and an old-school "Japan hand," Ike Greenwald, must get to the Emperor before Toyama. The only help they have is a lame-duck U.S. ambassador who has nothing to lose"--