Rising Sun (31)

Rising Sun
Michael Crichton
Read 7/24/07

A beautiful girl is found dead in a conference room of a new Japenese office building. The book is more about Japanese relations and how they are taking over the world. There is little about the murder.. the security tapes show them who did it.. but it becomes a onion.. peeling back the layers to find out why.
One thing I noticed in Crichton's books is that there is a LOT of confrontation.. more than is really necessary. The book also has long passages that don't really have to do with the murder.. but add background to the 'Japan is buying America' theme of the book. At one point the lead character listens to other men talk while he is in a waiting room about how Japanese are buying up ranches in Montana.
Crichton is an interesting author.. and even though this book is fiction there is a biblography... you are encouraged to did deeper into this Japanese "problem". Honestly I'm not really worried about the Japanese... I have better things to worry about :)