Tokyo Zangyo Detective Hiroshi Book 4 by Michael Pronko, available now as audiobook narrated by Peter Berkrot
Hello again, dear audiobooks friends! I am really excited about today’s New Release article, as I’ve been waiting for this audiobook to be available for what it seems to be a long, long time. Tokyo Zangyo is the 4th novel in the award-winning Detective Hiroshi Series of mysteries by Michael Pronko set in the exotic metropolis of Tokyo, Japan.
As you may remember, if you follow my articles here, I am a huge fan of Michael’s and I am always eagerly awaiting new installments.
I’m really glad that multiple award-winning narrator and actor Peter Berkrot has stepped into Detective Hiroshi’s shoes once again for this adventure and I can’t wait to see how he handles this latest challenge. I’ll add that the audio production is almost 10 hours in duration.
Now, let’s take a look at the Publisher’s Summary and find out more about this story. After that, I will tell you a few things about the author and the narrator, both of them are amazing artists and have been awarded a lot of prizes.
In Tokyo, your job can kill.
After a top-tier manager in Japan’s premier media company ends up dead in front of company headquarters, Detective Hiroshi enters the high-pressure, hard-driving world of Tokyo’s large corporations. Hiroshi quickly finds out the manager fell from the roof at the exact same spot as an employee suicide three years before.
With little more to go on, Hiroshi can’t tell if the manager’s death was a guilt-ridden suicide, a careless accident, or a grisly personnel decision. The only certainty is that Japanese workplaces rely on “zangyo”, unpaid overtime that drives employees to quit – or to kill.
Teaming up with his mentor Takamatasu, Hiroshi scours the off-record spending, lavish entertaining and unspoken agreements that keep Japan, Inc. running with brutal efficiency. Working overtime himself, Hiroshi probes the dark heart of Japanese business, a place he’s tried to avoid all his life.
Tokyo Zangyo is the fourth book in the Detective Hiroshi series.
Michael Pronko is a Tokyo-based writer of murder, memoir and music. His writing about Tokyo life and taut character-driven mysteries have won awards and five-star reviews. Kirkus Reviews selected his second novel, The Moving Blade for their Best Books of 2018. The Last Train won the Shelf Unbound Competition for Best Independently Published Book.
Michael runs the website, Jazz in Japan, which covers the vibrant jazz scene in Tokyo and Yokohama. During his 20 years in Japan, he has written about Japanese culture, art, society and politics for Newsweek Japan, The Japan Times, and Artscape Japan. He has read his essays on NHK TV and done programs for Nippon Television based on his writings.
A philosophy major, Michael traveled for years, ducking in and out of graduate schools, before finishing his PhD on Charles Dickens and film, and finally settling in Tokyo as a professor of American Literature at Meiji Gakuin University. His seminars focus on contemporary novels, short stories and film adaptations. You can find out more about Michal by visiting www.michaelpronko.com.
A veteran of stage and screen, Peter Berkrot‘s career spans four decades. Highlights include feature roles in Caddyshack and Showtime’s Brotherhood, and appearances on America’s Most Wanted and Unsolved Mysteries. His voice can be heard on television, radio, video games, documentaries and industrials. He is a prominent acting coach and a regular contributor to the award-winning news program Frontline produced by WGBH in Boston.
Peter served as director of narration for the Emmy-nominated The Truth About Cancer. He has also voiced almost 500 audiobooks and more than 300 for children, winning 10 Earphones Awards and a 2012 Audie Award nomination. He received SOVAS awards in 2018 and 2019. His 2016 Audie Award was as part of a multi cast performance for THE STARLING PROJECT, starring Alfred Molina and was part of the ensemble in the Audible Original THE X-FILES: COLD CASES starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson.
He was just honored along with a brilliant cast of actors for THE VAULT OF HORROR, directed by William Dufris with an Independent Audiobook Award for AUDIO DRAMA. Favorite titles include Toby and the Secrets of the Tree by Timotee de Fombelle, Unholy Night by Seth Grahame- Smith, The Accident by Linwood Barclay, The Last Policeman trilogy by Ben H. Winters, the Junior Bender series for Timothy Hallinan and Caddyshack: The making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story in which he is also featured as a character.
Stay tuned for my review for Tokyo Zangyo in the upcoming weeks, but until then take care, stay safe and don’t forget, always listen with your heart!
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