{"product_id":"2940044238602","title":"Tokyo Bossa Nova (A Feisty Ferreira Mystery)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA body is discovered on the dealing room floor of upper-crust investment bankers Baund Major, in this financial thriller from best-selling author Martin Roth. Meanwhile, a shady Japanese takeover specialist is trying to acquire an obscure Australian oil company.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnter Feisty Ferreira, a thirty-something geologist from Brazil who has taken a high-salary position at Baund Major in order to support the orphanage that she impulsively bought on a mission trip to the Philippines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSent to Tokyo to uncover the mystery of the takeover bid, she finds herself enveloped in a conspiracy that reaches to the highest levels of government. Along the way she is also forced to battle yakuza gangsters to rescue her own niece from the exotic Tokyo Bossa Nova nightclub, where she is being forced to work as a hostess.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer only ally would seem to be handsome Japanese investment banker Shiggy Sanjo. Yet even he may not be telling the truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this high-intensity action thriller nothing is what it seems and no one can be trusted. Plot twists will leave the reader guessing until the - literally - explosive finale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartin Roth is a veteran journalist and foreign correspondent whose reports from Asia have appeared in leading publications around the world, including the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun and The Guardian. He is the author of many books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis Brother Half Angel international thrillers focus on the persecuted church. They feature Brother Half Angel, a wily former military man who heads a clandestine new military order that is dedicated to fighting for the rights of persecuted Christians around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe five books in the series are \"The Coptic Martyr of Cairo,\" \"Brother Half Angel,\" \"The Maria Kannon,\" \"Military Orders\" and \"Festival in the Desert.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe is also the author of the Johnny Ravine private eye series, with \"Prophets and Loss,\" \"Hot Rock Dreaming\" (Australian Christian Book of the Year finalist) and \"Burning at the Boss,\" and the Feisty Ferreira series of financial thrillers - \"Tokyo Bossa Nova\" and \"The Kalgoorlie Skimpy.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe lives in Australia with his Korean wife and three sons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Martin Roth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47169260388592,"sku":"2940044238602","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940044238602_p0.jpg?v=1768413650","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940044238602","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}