Death World

This book is looking for an agent or publisher in the New Year. 

Would appeal to fans of Lee Child, Justin Cronin, Gillian Flynn and David Baldacci.

Japan is a fascinating place, but it also has an evil faction.

On holiday in Japan, James Ray witnesses a Yakuza hit that results in him also taking a bullet. 

Doctored video and evidence tie him to six unsolved murders. Captured and tossed in prison; the police consider it an open and shut case.

Held in a penitentiary-run hospital, with the cards stacked against him, James takes the matter into his own hands. There are clues throughout the shooting. He needs to do what he does well: investigate.

Compelled to make a deal with the CIA, James breaks out of prison and steps into the dark world of illegal arms sales and human trafficking.

It's an arrangement with world-changing consequences that uncovers a connection to an old case he worked in New Zealand, making him a target for retribution.

Can James prove his innocence and get his life back, or will the underbelly of society destroy him?