The Hanging Butoh Detective · #1
Hanging Butoh is also known as The Manga Man.
With this dazzling new series of futuristic thrillers, Besher introduces Johnny Hara, the paranormal Japanese-American Butoh detective, and his side-kick 'Spectral Yoko' (aka Spy), a female Butoh dancer showgirl. Together, they face the challenges of a 21st century-world run amok, in Besher's eerie and gripping "Hanging Butoh" mysteries... It is the year 2042, and the world no longer resembles the planet we knew four decades earlier. Gambling has been legalized, but people are no longer lured by money but by spiritual revitalization. For the city of American Shambhala is built on the site of a natural energy vortex, radiating live-giving energy which cures all illnesses. But this life-giving power must be won by gambling at the city's casinos, and the odds are not always fair.
