When PTSD-suffering US Marine Veteran Hiro McAllister sets out for his father—following clues left by his recently deceased mother––he finds him alive and thriving in Tokyo. Which is fantastic. Except that he’s the Godfather of a Yakuza crime syndicate. Driven by the need to know his father—as well as for money to get his twin out of a decrepit public psychiatric facility—Hiro is drawn into Tokyo’s underbelly and gets caught in a web of deceit, lawlessness, and murder. From the oil fields of Iraq to the back streets of Tokyo and to the shores of the Pacific island of Guam, The Accidental Yakuza is a psychologically complex crime thriller that probes family, friendship, and redemption. At its heart is a sympathetic existential anti-hero, and it should appeal to readers who enjoy the tightly plotted issue-driven fiction of Deon Meyer as well as the darkly comic, hardboiled fiction of Carl Hiaasen.