KANAGAWA, Japan, July 16, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) -- Tokyo boasts itself as the safest major city in the world. True, perhaps, if one looks past the "drunks, punks, rapists, chemically deranged truckers and bikers, homicidal perverts, religious genocide squads ... gangsters, anarcho-terrorists, and pachinko mamas." In this weird, pulsating Asian city, Frank Donner, a Vietnam vet and journalist wanna-be becomes an accidental hero and fumbles his newfound status. He then meets a top Tokyo news anchor to solve a strange case in F. J. Logan's Big Motorcycle (now available through 1stBooks).
Donner and Buddy Nakamura are jogging one day when a baby plummets down from a railing into Donner's arms. The baby's parents have just been hacked to pieces. He's an instant hero, but he loses this miraculous baby.
Miyuki Kobayashi is an anchorwoman for the News at Seven in Tokyo and niece of a high-level cop. She has been covering the baby murders and teams up with Donner to find the child. With Miyuki on the verge of a nervous breakdown that vodka no longer staves off, Donner "frets and fidgets and dithers around and gets sidetracked and ponders the meaning of life and several times almost gets wasted by all the people who suddenly want to kill him."
Big Motorcycle is a 48-hour story of the pursuit of criminals, dealing with characters that get in the way: t-shirt promoters, cops, communists, shoppers, tourists, missionaries, black-marketers and diplo-brats.
Logan has been a Tokyo-based journalist for 17 years. He has written for most of the major publications on the Pacific Rim, including Kyoto Journal, EastWest Magazine of Hawaii and Tokyo Journal. He has lived in a dozen countries since his birth in Iowa, including Nicaragua, Canada, Mexico and Japan. His previously written books include The Point Is the Point and Japan Fan.
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