Synopses & Reviews
Fifty thousand dollars has been wired by Russian intelligence officers in New York to a Japanese bank in Los Angeles, but the trail goes cold. Special Agent Jimmy Nessheim knows a local informant who's willing to help, but he vanishes mysteriously overnight. Nessheim's frantic search leads him through the dense streets of LA's Little Tokyo to a risky undercover gambit in Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese surprise attack. Hailed as the "successor to Frederick Forsyth" (Independent), Andrew Rosenheim shifts his focus from the homegrown Nazi threats in Fear Itself to the looming threat of war with Japan in the last days of peace before Pearl Harbor awoke the sleeping giant. The Informant is a well researched and skillfully rendered portrait of America on the cusp of the world stage. Praise for Fear Itself: "If you like wartime political thrillers, you'll love Andrew Rosenheim's gripping Fear Itself." --Newsweek/Daily Beast "This top-notch historical thriller from Rosenheim, the first in a new series . . . will only whet readers' appetites for more." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Review
"The ghosts of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler loom large here, as do the classic films
Chinatown and
Casablanca, lending Rosenheims prose a velvety texture." —
Kirkus ReviewsReview
“Andrew Rosenheims
The Little Tokyo Informant is a wonderfully intelligent and beautifully written historical thriller—I cant wait for the next installment in the series!” — Max Byrd, author of
The Paris Deadline and
California ThrillerReview
"Once again, Rosenheim's portrait of a pre-politically correct is jarring but fascinating…Rosenheim's use of historical detail is also effective…
The Little Tokyo Informant is compelling, intelligent entertainment." --
Booklist "Rosenheim is even better this time out at melding interesting leads with a thrilling story line and vivid descriptions of such locales as L.A.'s Little Tokyo."--Publishers Weekly
Synopsis
Autumn, 1941. At a secret meeting in Washington, FBI Assistant Director Harry Guttman is told that the Soviet Union has been infiltrating the highest levels of the United States government.
About the Author
Andrew Rosenheim is the author of Fear Itself and The Little Tokyo Informant, also available from Overlook. He grew up in Chicago and in a small town in Michigan, and then went on to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar in 1977. For many years he worked for Penguin Books and Oxford University Press. He is now a full-time writer.