Ransom

From the author of Bright Lights, Big City comes a novel detailing the pattern of adventure and disillusionment that leads a man toward an inevitable reckoning with his fate.

Living in Kyoto, the ancient capital of Japan, Christopher Ransom seeks a purity and simplicity he could not find at home, and tries to exorcise the terror he encountered earlier in his travels-a blur of violence and death at the Khyber Pass.

Ransom has managed to regain control, chiefly through the rigors of karate. Sup...