Back on the streets and in the stores, Arimasa Osawa’s acclaimed Shinjuku Shark sequel goes on sale today. The second installment, The Poison Ape, takes us even deeper into the dark, seedy underworld of Shinjuku. The yakuza is protecting a wanted man—a Taiwanese mafia leader who pissed off the wrong hired gunman. Now the elite killer has entered Japan and is hitting the streets of Shinjuku, picking off anyone who gets in the way of his target. Detective Samejima needs to find the hitman and stop him before he turns the streets of Shinjuku into a bloodbath of revenge.
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Things really heated up at Book Expo America this year. And even when the Javits Center’s air-conditioning finally started working, it remained hot at the Vertical booth. Thousands of librarians and sellers attended the annual four-day event, many stopping by to discuss Vertical’s impressive line of books, including the popular