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|summary=#The second book in the Detective Hiroshi series is another cracker: real tension and a scenario which is (unfortunately) only too believable. Highly recommended.

We first met Hiroshi in [[The Last Train (Detective Hiroshi) by Michael Pronko|The Last Train]]. He's ''mostly'' recovered from what happened in that case, but now he's sleeping in his office on a fold-out futon, knows that he really could do with a new coat but even though the weather is getting cold he doesn't know where his sweaters are. They might be in storage. What's important to him is Jamie Mattson's safety and this might have been easier to achieve if Jamie hadn't been quite so independent. She's half Japanese, half American and probably not completely at home in either country. Michael Pronko does a superb job of painting a picture of this disconnection, particularly with the USA. In some ways , this is down to the way in which he brings Tokyo and the Japanese lifestyle so brilliantly to life, but there's a fundamental understanding of what it's like to be torn between two cultures.

It's a great plot too. We've have a pretty good idea of who the baddies are from pretty fairly early on, so whilst there's an element of the police procedural in the story it's essentially a great, well-constructed thriller, which picks up on the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster of March 2011. It's a scenario which - unfortunately - is only too believable.