Robert Whiting Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan Vintage Books 2000

Title: Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan

Author: Robert Whiting

Format: Softcover

Publisher: Vintage Books 2000

Edition: First Edition

ISBN: 9780375724893

Size: 5.25 x 8

Synopsis: In 1945, as part of the Occupation forces sent to postwar Japan, New Yorker Nick Zappetti entered a world as strange as any he had ever known. In postwar Tokyo, however, he realised there were certain opportunities. With the assistance of the Mafia, he opened a pizza joint and became "the king of Roppongi and Mafia boss of Tokyo," and the intimate of some of Japan's most notorious underworld figures as well as many of its political and business leaders. Following Zappetti's rising and falling fortunes, Robert Whiting show us the sinister (and sometimes ridiculous) goings-on among Tokyo's criminal gangs as they developed from local racketeers and gamblers into lynchpins of international finance, politics and corruption.

Overall Condition: Very good with price sticker on rear cover; see images.

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