Curved Jewels

Tom Bradley doesn't write novels-he detonates diplomatic scandals in prose. Curved Jewels is

a literary nerve agent disguised as fiction, smuggled out of the Imperial Palace and injected

straight into your bloodstream.

This isn't a story. It's a jailbreak. The Crown Princess of Japan-brilliant linguist, coerced consort,

reluctant martyr-slips through the gilded cage of Hirohito's legacy with the help of two shady

American expatriates. What follows is a hallucinogenic fugue of flesh trades, psyc...