The Last Yakuza: Life and Death in the Japanese Underworld
By: Jake Adelstein
3.87
Format: 391 pages, Kindle Edition
The Last Yakuza tells the history of the yakuza like it's never been told before. Makoto Saigo i…
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1. Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan's Underworld
By: John Bester , Junichi Saga
3.91
Format: 24 pages,
This is the true story, as told to the doctor who looked after him just before he died, of the life… read more
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- japan
- crime
2. Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan
By: Robert Whiting
3.80
Format: 25 pages, Paperback
"A fascinating look at some fascinating people who show how democracy advances hand in hand with cr… read more
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3. Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld
By: None , None
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
Known for their striking full-body tattoos and severed fingertips, Japan's gangsters comprise a cri… read more
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5. Welcome to the N.H.K.
By: Tatsuhiko Takimoto
3.95
Format: 473 pages,
Twenty-two-year-old Satou, an unemployed, reclusive conspiracy theorist living in Tokyo, meets a my… read more
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6. Nuclear War: A Scenario
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
7. Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun
By: Chris Broad
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a … read more
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8. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
By: Steve Coll
4.44
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
9. The Mantis
By: Kōtarō Isaka
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling author of Bullet Train and Three Assassins, a propulsive new t… read more
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10. Tokyo Junkie: 60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys . . . and Baseball
By: Robert Whiting
4.25
Format: 384 pages, ebook
Tokyo Junkie is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic 60-year growth of the megacity Tokyo, onc… read more
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- audiobook
11. Japan's Infamous Unit 731: First-hand Accounts of Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program (Tuttle Classics)
By: Hal Gold
3.74
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
This is a riveting and disturbing account of the medical atrocities performed in China during WWII.… read more
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- true crime
- nonfiction
- japan
- audiobook
12. The Book of Elsewhere
By: Keanu Reeves
3.42
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The legendary Keanu Reeves and inimitable writer China Miéville team up on this genre-bending epic … read more
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13. Kilo: Inside the Deadliest Cocaine Cartels—From the Jungles to the Streets
By: Toby Muse
4.21
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
For fans of the Netflix show Narcos and readers of true crime, Kilo is a deeply reported account of… read more
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"I roll into the Land of Lightning with a honey bear under my arm and a storm at my heels."-Toby Muse, Kilo: Inside the Deadliest Cocaine Cartels—From the Jungles to the Streets
14. Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever
By: Joseph Cox
4.12
Format: None pages, None
The inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI made its own… read more
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- crime
- audiobook
15. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
By: John Ganz
4.23
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more
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- nonfiction
- crime
- history
- audiobook
16. Assassins Anonymous
By: Rob Hart
3.96
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
In this clever, surprising, page-turner, the world’s most lethal assassin gives up the violent life… read more
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"The difference between humility and humiliation is willingness. Ultimately, it's not for them. It's for me."-Rob Hart, Assassins Anonymous
17. Godwin
By: Joseph O'Neill
3.60
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The odyssey of two brothers crossing the world in search of an African soccer prodigy who might cha… read more
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18. Seventeen
By: Hideo Yokoyama
3.71
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A tense, powerful thriller from the bestselling author of Six Four 1985. Kazumasa Yuuki, a seaso… read more
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"Never trust a man who needs to get drunk before he can speak his mind. Those people are not living an authentic life."-Hideo Yokoyama, Seventeen
"People's lives. There are big lives and little lives, aren't there? ... Heavy lives and lightweight lives; important lives, and lives that are... not."-Hideo Yokoyama, Seventeen
"People's lives. There are big lives and little lives, aren't there? ... Heavy lives and llightweight lives; important lives, and lives that are... not."-Hideo Yokoyama, Seventeen
"As long as you kept running from birth until death, falling down, getting hurt, no matter how many times you suffered defeat, you got up and started running again. Personal happiness came from all th…"-Hideo Yokoyama, Seventeen
19. The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1)
By: James S.A. Corey
4.24
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is ab… read more
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20. Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse #5)
By: Dennis E. Taylor
4.38
Format: 11 pages, Audiobook
The number one best-selling series that Audible listeners call “wonderfully entertaining”, “packed … read more
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21. The Last Yakuza: Life and Death in the Japanese Underworld
By: Jake Adelstein
3.87
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
The Last Yakuza tells the history of the yakuza like it’s never been told before in this gripping, … read more
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