A Native American boy goes missing in Japan. The CEO of the Native run casino on the reservation hires a one time active duty Marine. A Japanese speaker, and former soldier of fortune born on the Wind River Reservation to search for him. When his Shoshone Arapaho mother died, John H.H. Becker was raised by a Japanese step mother between the ages of four and eight in Nippon. He returns to the land of the rising sun in search of answers and finds himself in a dark world inhabited by a new generation of yakuza connected criminals that now have international reach.

A Wyoming native who has lived in Japan, Puerto Rico, Saipan, the Virgin Islands, Chicago, and Hawaii. He is retired now but has done a lot of side jobs. Roughneck on a drilling rig after high school in the mid-1970s. Open water scuba instructor, and translator. He learned to fly at 17 in 1974, has been a professional pilot for most of his life, and was fortunate enough to fly all five series of Boeing 747s as Captain, working with outstanding people throughout his career. Married since March of 1982 to a wonderful woman with two great sons and a fantastic grandson.