New York: St Martin's, (1988). Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set during World War II at the internment camp at Manzanar.
Publishers Weekly commented in their "In addition to being a fast-paced thriller laced with intrigue and murder, this is also a provocative look at the shameful treatment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. In 1944, Lt. Jared Campbell, head of military police at the Manzanar, Calif., internment camp, finds the body of issei (Japan-born) Masao Shido, apparently a case of seppuku (ritual suicide). Campbell then discovers the headless corpse of the camp's Quaker director. With the help of camp police-chief Hank Fukuda, an American-trained criminologist, Campbell tries to solve the mystery. . . This is a bleak and effective book that does not gild the sorry racism of the times." 410 pp. ISBN: 0-31201774X.