Occupation Author Name Barry Lancet Notable awards Barry Award | Nationality American Role Author | |
Genre Mystery, Thriller, Private Investigator Books Tokio Kill: Thriller, Japantown, Pacific Burn, Tokyo Kill Education University of California, Los Angeles, University of California, Berkeley | ||
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Barry Lancet is an American author best known for the Jim Brodie series of thrillers. He lives in Tokyo, Japan.
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Lancet's first book, Japantown, was released in 2013 and won the Barry Award for Best First Mystery Novel, and was named a "Best of 2013" by Suspense Magazine. HIs second novel, Tokyo Kill, was a finalist for a Shamus Award for Best P.I. Novel.
His influences include John le Carre, Robert B. Parker, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Victor Hugo, Alexander Dumas, and Raymond Chandler.
Before becoming a full-time author in 2013, Lancet worked for publisher Kodansha International.
Japantown
Released in 2013 by Simon & Schuster. When an entire family is senselessly gunned down in San Francisco's Japantown, antique dealer and reluctant private eye Jim Brodie receives a call from a friend at the SFPD. As an American born and raised in Japan, Brodie has advised the local police in the past, but the near-perfect murders in Japantown are like nothing he's ever encountered.
In 2014, Japantown was optioned by J. J. Abrams' Bad Robot Productions, in association with Warner Bros.
Tokyo Kill
"Art, social issues, culture and, yes, war — all the things that make or break a society — converge in Barry Lancet's exciting second novel about antiques dealer Jim Brodie, who inherited his father's Tokyo-based private investigation and personal protection firm."
When an elderly World War Two veteran shows up unannounced at Brodie Security begging for protection, the staff thinks he's just a paranoid old man. He offers up a story connected to World War II and to Chinese Triads operating in present-day Tokyo, insisting that he and his few surviving army buddies are in danger. Jim Brodie agrees to provide a security detail, thinking it'll be an easy job and end when the man comes to his senses. Instead, an unexpected, brutal murder rocks Brodie and his crew, sending them deep into the realm of the Triads, Chinese spies, Japanese kendo warriors, and an elusive group of killers whose treachery spans centuries—and who will stop at nothing to complete their mission.
Pacific Burn
Jim Brodie has just been brought on as the liaison for the San Francisco mayor’s new Pacific Rim Friendship Program. Brodie in turn recruits his friend, the renowned Japanese artist Ken Nobuki, and after a promising meeting with city officials, a sniper attacks them from the roof of the Asian Art Museum. Brodie soon realizes that, with the suspicious and untimely death of Nobuki’s oldest son a week earlier in Napa Valley, someone may be targeting his friend’s family—and killing them off one by one.