Day 13
Big In Japan
By:Jennifer Griffith
Book Blurb:
Buck
Cooper can’t remember when he became socially invisible—probably
when he hit 300 pounds. Now he’s working a dead end job, getting no
notice from his boss and no love from the cute secretary he pines
for.
But
when he gets shanghaied to Tokyo, all of that changes for the
mild-mannered Buck—because this blond Texan is about to go sumo!
Peek
inside the secret world of sumo, and cheer for Buck as he fights his
way through the ranks— against bullies of incredible size—to win
the heart of the girl he loves.
Snippet:
Shadow
Warrior
Buck
Cooper crouched into fighting stance. Nothing stood between him and
his assailants but his thin kimono and the bitter winter air. Night
enveloped him, but the sodium glow of the city streetlights hanging
sparsely near the docks gave faint outline to the three
black-pajamaed henchmen sent to do him bodily harm.
Buck’s
folds of flesh shook like a gelatin on his mother’s holiday table
back home—not so much from fear, but from the winter night. These
trained fighters’ eyes pierced the night in steely hatred of him,
and Buck wondered again whose money they accepted in exchange for
this assault under night’s blanket of secrecy; which of his many
recently-amassed enemies felt strongly enough about his demise to
resort to this?
The
tallest of the three advanced first. Buck knew from stories bandied
about the stable that these kinds of hits almost always came
orchestrated by the Japanese underground, the yakuza.
Surrounded by the towering steel freight containers that slid in and
soared upward, his world was this alley. Buck had never fought three
men at once, except in days on the playground in Texas when bullies
ganged up on him almost twenty years ago. If what he did then could
even be called fighting. Certainly he had never triumphed in a three
on one battle.
A gust of icy air made his throat constrict. The first hitman
circled him at a short distance, and Buck rotated to keep him in
sight, even though it meant turning his back on the other two.
Puffs of exhaled steam hung momentarily in the freezing air.
With
blinding speed the first assailant attacked, and Buck struck out a
hand in hopes of catching him by the throat. The impact seared
through his shoulder. Protecting his own life was going to be more
brutal than he imagined.
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Author Bio:
Jennifer Griffith is
a wife and a mother of five, and although she’s never seen a
Jennifer Griffith is a wife and a mother of five, and writes all
manner of romantic comedy--her husband supplies the romance, and the
kids supply the comedy. She lives in Arizona now, but in college she
lived in Japan for almost two years. At 5'1" tall, she never
once sumo wrestled.
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