The blonde who walks into PI Elvis Cole's office is the best-looking woman he's seen in weeks. The only things that keep her from rating a perfect '1' are the briefcase on one arm and the suit on the other who needs his thirteenth-century Japanese manuscript back – and fast.

Cole knows nothing about Japan that he didn't learn from Shogun, but he knows a lot about crooks and his sidekick Joe Pike knows even more. Together their search begins in LA's Little Tokyo, the nest of the notorious Japanese mafia, and leads to a white-knuckle adventure filled with madness, murder and sexual obsession . . .