by Mike Karpa

It’s 1991. Young gay American Conner has found refuge in Tokyo after a rough coming out in Los Angeles. But a spectacular economic meltdown has crushed Japan’s high-flying dreams, and now Tokyo is going sour for Conner, too. He’s turned to crime to bail out an ex-boyfriend, he's alienating friends and he's started sleeping with a woman. When a crime scheme goes south, he scours Tokyo’s dimly lit night scene for a solution. Conner and fellow refuge-seeker Marika, who has fled a failing suburban marriage for her own big city ambitions, agree to a shady caper that may save or doom them both. As gangsters, grifters and police close in, the two must grapple with questions of crime and honesty, and to whom—and whose laws—they should be loyal.

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About the Author

Mike’s fiction, memoir and nonfiction can be found in Tin House, Foglifter, Tahoma Literary Review, Oyster River Pages and other magazines. He is the author of Criminals, a literary thriller that was a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2022 (Indie), as well as the upbeat scifi romance Red Dot and now The Wealthy Whites of Williamsburg, the story of an NYC family that Kirkus Reviews called "a deeply satisfying story that’s written with intelligence and wit". He lives with his husband and dog in San Francisco.



Other Books By Mike Karpa

Genre: Romance

Book Cover: Red Dot
Red Dot
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Genre: Satire

Book Cover: The Wealthy Whites of Williamsburg
The Wealthy Whites of Williamsburg
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Genre: Science Fiction

Book Cover: Red Dot
Red Dot
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