About the Book After a fight with the director of the movie based on his life, reporter Billy Chaka gets sent to Hokkaido on a mandatory vacation, but he soon finds himself back at work after a porter at the Hotel Kitty dies in his room. Book Synopsis After an altercation with the director of Wildman for Geisha! -- a movie based on ace reporter Billy Chakas life -- Chaka finds himself in Hokkaido on mandatory vacation. Trouble starts when the elderly porter of the Hotel Kitty stumbles into Billys room and dies. That same night, the lead singer of Japans most popular rock band turns up dead in a sleazy love hotel in Tokyo. Billy Chaka goes to Tokyo to cover the story for Youth in Asia magazine and soon finds out theres more to the rockers apparent drug overdose than meets the eye. A Beatles-obsessed record executive, a mute DJ, two giant kickboxing twins with an encyclopedic knowledge of pop music, a Swedish stripper working at the Purloined Kitten Club -- each play a part in the hard-boiled hilarity that ensues as Billy Chaka discovers that the rock star and the elderly hotel porter just might share a very strange link. Review Quotes Billy Chakas adventures are as vibrantly hypnotic as the best Japanese anime.-- Publishers Weekly Fresh and exciting. An entertaining blend of mystery and mischief.-- Booklist Danger lurks in the well-lit corners of Tokyos immaculately clean streets...a good tale.-- Kirkus Reviews An animated Tokyo-as-Toontown that is simultaneously vivid, vibrant, gaudy and in glorious decline...a big adventure.--Time magazine (Asian edition) Two parts noir to one part MTV, this twisty, wildly entertaining mystery is spiked with pop culture and wicked wit--School Library Journal