Yakuza

From the depths of cultural isolation as a young boy in a village of outcasts on the desolate island of Shikoku, Fumio Kosaka rises through the ranks of the Sumikawa Gumi, Japan's largest & most powerful criminal clan & the only real family he has ever had, stopping at nothing until he becomes...The Japanese Godfather. San Francisco's Detective Jack Spencer tries to stop the yakuza with an all-out attack on the Japanese mafia's cunning strategy in California. This action-packed adventure takes you behind the scenes of the Lockheed affair of the 1970s, behind the Recruit scandal of the 1980s, behind the powerful money-politics of modern-day Japan. A classic philosophical clash between East & West. Steven Schlossstein, a former vice president of Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, currently heads his own strategic consulting firm, SBS Associates, Inc. The author of Kensei (1983, a best-seller in the softcover edition); Trade War (1985, cited by the American Library Association as one of the ten best business books that year); and most recently, the widely acclaimed The End of the American Century (1990), all published by Congdon & Weed.