D. L. Coleman Bücher

October 1965, Japan, the monsoons. Captain Wray Larrick, USMC, is on his way out of the Corps on a medical retirement for wounds received in an ambush-gone-wrong in Vietnam three months earlier, one Naval Intelligence in Yokosuka suspects is from espionage at a remote code relay station at Camp Fuji, since a young marine who worked there was just murdered. Under supervision of Navy Lieutenant Norma DeSeine, Wray is held over to investigate, with almost nothing to go on. Muddling along, he accrues a number of suspects, including his old buddy Frank Lofton, the camp gunny, and local civilian police detective Sergeant Tok Shigeta, a former American returned to his roots, Shigeta's cousin, an American Army M.P. stationed nearby, and an American arms dealer who sidelines as a jazz bar owner in Yokohama's Chinatown. Working backwards, from the outside in, unlike most detectives, Wray begins uncovering evidence of several similar murders from Canada to Virginia, from the Pacific Ocean aboard ship to Japan that might be related to the same killer or killers, including an unknown Korean link.