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Title: The Little Tokyo Informant
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Andrew Rosenheim
Narrator: Tristan Morris
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-06-16
Publisher: Random House Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Espionage
Publisher's Summary:
Autumn, 1941. At a secret meeting in Washington, FBI Assistant Director Harry Guttman is told that the Soviet Union has been infiltrating the highest levels of the United States government.
Fifty thousand dollars has been wired by Russian intelligence officers in New York to a Japanese bank in Los Angeles, but the trail goes cold. Special Agent Jimmy Nessheim knows a local informant who's willing to help, but he vanishes mysteriously overnight. Nessheim's frantic search leads him through the dense streets of LA's Little Tokyo to a risky undercover gambit in Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese surprise attack.
Members Reviews:
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Andrew Rosenheim continues the tales of Harry Guttman and Jim Nessheim, FBI agents dealing with events prior to the onslaught of America's involvement during WWII. In this particular tale, Nessehim has been detailed to California where he serves as a technical adviser to Hollywood studios making movies about J. Edgar and his agency. Guttman, meanwhile, has been reassigned to the South America region where he is suppose to be keeping his eyes on activities of foreign agents.
Rosenheim's first book, "Fear Itself", revolved around the German Bund's efforts to infiltrate the U.S. while this book brings into play the other side of the country with Russia and Japan being the focus. When $50,000 supposedly gets transfer from New York to California, and Nessheim's Japanese informant comes up missing, both Guttman and Nessheim have to bend to their instincts to overcome agency obstacles to find out how the two events are entwined.
As a reader of historical fiction, I particularly like the author's details regarding the locations, people and events of the era. The mystery is top-notch and Guttman and Nessheim have become endearing characters, but I particularly liked how he enjoined others, (like the moguls of the film industry Mayer and Jack Warner for instance), locations (such as Yale University and UCLA) and events (early Russian fundraisers...major activities for the 1940s) into his script.
Rosenheim has present quite a good production regarding people and events just prior to WWII and I would stongly recommend his series.
On another note, I suggested in his last novel that his editor could have done a better job of reviewing the final publication due to numerous spelling, punctuation, and editing mistakes. These books must have been published at the same time due to several mistakes in this book too. A quality production should not have grammar mistakes like "Cleveland have no idea who he is." or the number of hyphens at the end of the sentences there are. Obviously someone was hoping to get rid of the "orphans" at the end of the sentences, but the printer failed to remove the hyphen once the spacing was corrected. I hate to be nit-picky, but a good publisher would spend more time on final proof-reading.
Don't let this deter you from reading a fine series, however.
Great story, great atmosphere, shows up one of our most shameful eras.
The suffering of Japanese immigrants was irrational and disgraceful in these United States. This is one of the few novels I have found which captures the time precisely and isn't afraid to show the results. Getting to the bottom of the mystery is as fascinating and frustrating for the reader as it is to the FBI agent.