The Moving Blade

Peace is a performance. Murder is the encore.

When American diplomat Bernard Mattson is found dead in his Tokyo home-his stomach opened by a Japanese sword-Detective Hiroshi Shimizu is called to the scene. The diplomat's estranged daughter, Jamie Mattson, half-Japanese and half-American, arrives to collect her father's research manuscript-a document powerful enough to reshape U.S.-Japan, and indeed pan-Asian, relations. But the paper has vanished, the house is ransacked, and the killers are ...