While living in Tokyo, British expatriate consultant Kenneth Sharpe meets a mysterious stranger, who claims to be hunted by the American security services. Shortly after pressing a box into Sharpe's hand, the stranger is discovered dead under the wheels of a train, and Sharpe's life is turned upside down in a whirlwind of danger and adventure . . .
Japantown by Barry Lancet;
The Detachment by Barry Eisler