December 6: A Novel
Written by Martin Cruz Smith
Narrated by L.J. Ganser
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
Amid the imperialist fervor of late 1941 Tokyo, Harry Niles is a man with a mission -- self-preservation. But Niles was raised by missionary parents and educated in the shadows of Tokyo's underworld -- making his loyalties as dubious as his business dealings.
Now, on the eve of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Niles must decide where his true allegiances lie, as he tries to juggle his Japanese mistress and an affair with the wife of a British diplomat; avoid a modern-day samurai who is honor-bound to kill him; and survive the Japanese high command, whose plans for conquest may just dictate his survival.
Set in a maelstrom of personal temptations and mortal enemies, with a remarkable anti-hero caught in a land he can never call his own, DECEMBER 6 is a triumph of imagination, history, and riveting storytelling.
Martin Cruz Smith
Martin Cruz Smith’s novels include Gorky Park, Stallion Gate, Nightwing, Polar Star, Stalin’s Ghost, Rose, December 6, Tatiana, The Girl from Venice, and The Siberian Dilemma. He is a two-time winner of the Hammett Prize, a recipient of the Mystery Writers of America’s Grand Master Award and Britain’s Golden Dagger Award, and a winner of the Premio Piemonte Giallo Internazionale. He lives in California.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A companion piece to "Stallion Gate". Excellent historical novels. Jazz stories in Tokyo and Sante Fe. A son of American Missionaries goes ferral growing up in Tokyo finds he has to pirouette
amongst conflicting motives in an exotic land never to be seen again. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I loved all the descriptions of Japan and how the Japanese are different from Europeans and Americans. Found The ending weak. Not as sophisticated as the Arkady novels.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good story, suspenseful, very interesting for a gaijin living in japan. I laughed at all the typically American inaccurately pronounced Japanese words: Asakusa, sake, Torii, etc... I felt like I was listening to an American military guy in Okinawa who never actually heard a Japanese person say those words.