While visiting a friend in Japan, you learn a valuable tea bowl has been stolen. Can you retrieve the bowl before thieves spirit it out of the country?

During World War II, fifteen-year-old Tommy Yamamoto and his family are forced into the Manzanar Internment Camp for Japanese Americans. While there, an elderly internee is attacked, and one of the camp's guards is charged with the crime. Tommy believes the mystery is far from over and sets out to solve the crime. Includes panel art and narrative text.

"A pulse-pounding, as-it-happens narrative that unfolds in Los Angeles over twenty-three days beginning on December 6, 1941. The Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor. The United States teeters on the edge of war. The roundup of allegedly treasonous Japanese Americans is about to begin. And in L.A., a Japanese family is found dead. Murder or ritual suicide? The investigation will draw four people into a totally Ellroy-ian tangle: a brilliant Japanese...