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The Tattoo
Paperback Edition: 1
Ken Hideyoshi is the new guy in Halawa Correctional Institute.
He's tough looking, a hard case, observes his cellmate Cal - the mute tattoo artist of the prison, a wife murderer. SYN, a gang symbol, is tattooed on his hand, and he has a Japanese emblem inscribed on his left shoulder.
He asks Cal for a tattoo on his back, in kanji script, of Musashi's Book of the Void. While he is being worked on, he tells Cal his life story, a tale of hardship and abuse.
Motherless, he was raised by a distant father, a Vietnam War veteran, in the impoverished hinterlands. In his teen years he hung out with the native Hawaiian gangs and was drawn into the Hawaiian-Korean underworld of strip bars and massage parlors.
His ambition and proud samurai spirit seem, inevitably, to lead to his downfall.
Pages : 248
Publisher : Soho Press
Publication date : 2007-05-01
Subjects: Fiction, Contemporary, Crime / Thrillers, Historical Fiction