Meet Elvis Cole, L.A. private eye . . . he quotes Jiminy Cricket and carries a .38. He´s a literate, wisecreacking Vietnam vet who is determined never to grow up. The blonde who walked into Cole´s office was the bestlooking woman he´d seen in weeks. The only thing that kept her from rating a perfect "10" was the briefcase on one arm and the uptight hotel magnate on the other. Bradley Warren had lost something very valuable--something that belonged to someone else: a rare thirteenth-century Japanese manuscript called the Hagakure. Just about all Cole knew about Japanese culture he´d learned from reading Shogun, but he knew a lot about crooks--and what he didn´t know his sociopathic sidekick, Joe Pike, did. Together their search begins in L.A.´s Little Tokyo and the nest of notorious Japanese mafia, the yakuza, and leads to a white-knuckled adventure filled with madness, murder, sexual obsession, and a stunning double-whammy ending. For Elvis Cole, it´s just another day´s work.