The Nightless City

<p>Tokyo, 1886.
Chino Kunio, a male courtesan in the infamous Yoshiwara neighbourhood - The Nightless City -discovers his one and only client, a British diplomat, dead and himself in the frame for the man's grisly murder.

Trying to save Chino from the judicial blade are his friend, samurai rebel turned reckless drunk Shimura Shingo, under-pressure police inspector Tokuda Reiji, and the victim's wife, Fi Gordon, a Scottish teacher living a stifled life in the foreign concession who is seeking her own answers.

But as more foreigners are slain, dredging up the shadow of shipwreck that lead to a diplomatic scandal, Chino's only hope may be to escape The Nightless City for good, before it explodes into violence between belligerent westerners and nationalist bully boys.</p>