Yakuza Go Home - Mark Shigata, Bk 5 Author:Anne Wingate For Mark Shigata, police chief of Bayport, Texas, being Japanese is something that he is, and accident of birth that he never thinks about, that has no impact on what he does or how he lives. But for others, that heritage defines the man, and their actions are based on how they think he should react. — Shigata's reactions to the rising floodwater... more »s were not open to debate: he had to take care of his family, getting his wife and daughter to higher ground, and he had to make certain that emergency services were ready. But all those considerations were pushed aside when Isoruko--Rocky--Omori showed up in the chief's office. Shigata had taken it for granted that he had relatives in Japan, but he'd never been in touch with them. Now his cousin was asking for help, asking that Shigata forget the bad blood, asking that Shigata agree to care for Omori's four-year-old son. In less than twenty-four hours, as the storm waters rise, that promise must be fulfilled.
Rocky Omori was the son-in-law of a Yakuza oyabun, the Godfather of a Japanese crime family. Shigata had gone up against Buddy Yamagata as an F.B.I. agent in San Francisco; now the entire muscle of the Yamagata organization is focused on a small Texas Gulf town, and Mark Shigata faces an implacable enemy, a man with no compunctions when it comes to murdering people, even blood relatives. Killing a police officer means even less...« less