Yakuza Perfume

by Akahige Namban

Book Overview

While still recovering from their ordeal in the Kiso Mountains of Central Japan, Japanese American brothers Jim and Andy are surprised by a female agent of the Clouds and Rain Company, seeking refuge... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1562012274
• ISBN13: 9781562012274
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.2" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

Lovers Not Fighters

Pushing the climax of the previous book into this one in order to make room for more sex scenes might have been forgivable; pushing it between the books in order to make room for more sex scenes in this book really is not. At the end of Tokyo Story separated-at-birth brothers Jim Suzuki and Andy Middler have learned precious little beyond a few intriguing clues about their parentage, but by the beginning of this book they have returned home to Tokyo after having successfully tracked down their fathers. The details of this meeting and any explanations offered by their fathers for their mysterious past behavior are never revealed! Instead the first seven chapters consist entirely of women they met during their journey of discovery showing up in Tokyo for another go at the brothers. The resulting absence of character development and repetitive nature of the episodes actually manages to make the sex scenes boring! At this point I was almost ready to quit reading in disgust and write a scathing review, but in chapter eight Namban FINALLY gets around to launching the plot. For reasons never made entirely clear the boys' fathers have sent a sample of their new aphrodisiac perfume and a computer disk containing the formula for it to the boys, and after the usual orgy with the female courier, Japanese gangsters show up demanding the items, and then the courier vanishes along with the items. Naturally (!) the boys' fathers accuse their sons of being in on the plot so it is up to Jim and Andy to split up and find the missing courier, recover the missing items, and thus clear their names. Unfortunately Jim and Andy are not exactly cut out to be heroes; in fact they are really a couple of cowards. Fortunately here is where Mr. Namban finally gets clever as our boys decide to go with their strengths and f*ck their way around the world playing detective, and it turns out that the penis is also mightier than the sword! Despite the poor beginning Namban arguably manages to pull out a satisfying ending (in more ways than one), but this series is clearly inferior to his other series set in Tokugawa Japan: Chrysanthemum, Rose, and the Samurai, Shogun's Agents, Women of the Mountain, Warriors of the Town, and The New Concubine. One final criticism is that Namban makes the mistake of trying to write a devout Christian character, and the result is just embarrassing. Namban's novels work because he knows Japanese people very well, the same cannot be said about his knowledge of Christians.