Manchukuo

Bob Haller. Leister & Sons Publishing Company, $14.95 (336pp) ISBN 978-0-9618234-4-3

With ninjas and Navy SEALS, kidnapping and reformed war criminals, Manchurian gold and a Russian jewelry chest, romance, blackmail and murder, Bob Haller's latest mystery (after The Coiled Serpent) is bigger than a Hollywood blockbuster. Everyone's after $500 million hidden in a cave beneath a Chinese reservoir, and as ex-SEALS Randy Rawlins and Vince Volcano try to nab it, they uncover a decades-old dirty deal, a fashion designer with a strange past and double-crossing agents everywhere they look in the overly complicated and tersely written Manchukuo Gold.

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