Nick Raider SD #2: U sjeni cara
A Japanese stockbroker’s murder leads Nick Raider to the family of tycoon Hidetora Otomo. Could a theft targeting Otomo explain why the broker was killed?
In In the Shadow of the Emperor, Nick Raider investigates the murder of a Japanese stockbroker in New York. One of the broker’s biggest clients, business tycoon Hidetora Otomo, known as the “Last Emperor”, is fighting for his life. He suffered a heart attack the day after a major theft targeted him. Nick has to find out whether the two cases are connected by more than the broker’s business relationship with Otomo.
Nick starts by speaking to Otomo’s three sons. From the ailing tycoon’s family, the trail leads to dealings that could explain both the theft and the murder. To understand why the broker was killed, Nick has to work out whose interests were at stake in his dealings with Otomo.
Michele Medda and Federico Antinori set the police investigation in New York’s Japanese community. The tension builds as Nick pieces together what the family tells him and what he learns about the broker’s business, drawing two apparently separate crimes into the same investigation.
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