LEADER 00000nam 2200529 i 4500 005 20180628161808.0 006 m o d 007 cr un ---uuuuu 008 150813s2015 njua o 000 1 eng d 020 9781940610450 :|c$1.99 020 1940610451 :|c$1.99 035 (OCoLC)910968779 037 0016156941|bBaker & Taylor 040 NjBwBT|beng|erda|cNjBwBT|dUtOrBLW 069 06416194 082 04 813/.6 082 04 813/.6|223 099 eBook Boundless 100 1 Goodfellow, Richard,|eauthor. 245 10 Collector of secrets /|cRichard Goodfellow.|h[Boundless electronic resource] 264 1 Hoboken, NJ :|bPolis Books,|c2015. 300 1 online resource (361 pages) :|billustrations 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 347 text file|2rda 520 A riveting debut thriller with the twists and turns of "North by Northwest "and The Firm about an American in Japan who comes upon a mysterious decades-old diary, and ends up caught in a web of global espionage he cannot possibly fathom. Max Travers is an English teacher in Japan. When his manipulative boss begins swindling the unsuspecting parents of his students, Max must retrieve his passport to return home. Max sneaks into her office only to stumble upon a burglary-in-progress. Max barely escapes, but accidentally takes a strange diary bound in leather and embossed with a strange seal. Little does Max know that this diary has been hidden for over half a century, and its secrets could topple some of Japan's most powerful people and rewrite the history of the royal family. Max soon finds himself on the run from everyone from tattooed Yakuza to the Japanese police and a mysterious American who has ties in the highest places, all willing to kill for the diary's secrets. With his and girlfriend's lives in the balance, Max must decipher the diary's secrets in a richly detailed and ambitious thriller that covers everything from World War II to Watergate. 520 Surprising a burglary in progress in his boss's office, American Max Travers gets caught in a web of global espionage and ends up on the run with a mysterious decades -old diary containing secrets involving some of Japan's most powerful people. 538 Requires Boundless App. 588 Description based on print version record. 650 0 Americans|zJapan|vFiction. 650 0 Secrecy|vFiction. 650 0 Diaries|vFiction. 650 0 English teachers|zJapan|vFiction. 650 0 Yakuza|vFiction. 650 7 Americans.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00807488 650 7 English teachers.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00912393 650 7 Secrecy.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01110644 650 7 Yakuza.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01182322 651 0 Japan|vFiction. 651 7 Japan.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204082 655 4 Electronic books. 655 7 Suspense fiction.|2gsafd 655 7 Fiction.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423787 776 08 |iElectronic reproduction of (manifestation):|aGoodfellow, Richard.|tCollector of secrets|dHoboken, NJ : Polis Books, 2015|z9781940610337|w(NjBwBT)bl2015031282 |w(OCoLC)889169197 856 40 |uhttps://naper.boundless.baker-taylor.com/ng/view/library /title/0016156941|zFound on Boundless