Synopsis from the Publisher (Doubleday)
With Buddha Kiss, Tasker takes his sophisticated brand of suspense to a whole new level.
Richard Mitchell used quick wits and a degree in Japanese Studies to turn his job as a bike messenger in central London into a
position as securities analyst in Tokyo. Those wits should help make him a financial whiz-kid -- if his career isn't ruined first by
his having to recommend the underwriting of a run-down company at the insistence of his new boss, Yazawa, a strange,
mercurial man who seemed to appear out of the blue three months ago. Meanwhile, Kazuo Mori, a maverick private eye in the
world's most conformist society, is trying to retain his independence as he investigates the murder of a friend's daughter. His
inquiries seem to be leading him toward the radical Peace Technology cult -- it's just that any time he makes progress, somebody
tries to kill him.