DECEMBER 6 by Martin Cruz Smith (2002) - Abridged

Read by . . : John Slattery
Publisher . : Simon & Schuster Audio; Abridged edition (2002)
ISBN . . . .: ISBN-10: 0743526384 ISBN-13: 9780743526388
            : ISBN-10: 0743576144 ISBN-13: 9780743576147
Format . . .: MP3. 79 tracks, 194 MB
Bitrate . . : 80 kbps (iTunes 9, CBR, Mono, 44.1 kHz)
Source . . .: 5 CDs (6 hours)
Genre . . . : Fiction, Suspense
* Abridged .: Abridged *

Nicely tagged and labeled, original CD tracks, cover scan included. 
(I do not believe an unabridged version of this book has been made.)

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Synopsis:

From Martin Cruz Smith, author of Gorky Park and Havana Bay, comes another audacious novel of exotic locales, intimate intrigues and the mysteries of the human heart: December 6.

Set in the crazed, nationalistic Tokyo of late 1941, December 6 explores the coming world war through the other end of history's prism -- a prism held here by an unforgettable rouge and lover, Harry Niles.

In many ways, Niles is as American as apple pie: raised by ultra-protective missionary parents, taught to honor and respect his elders and be an upright Christian citizen. But Niles is also Japanese: reared in the aesthetics od Shinto and educated in the dance halls and back room poker gatherings of Tokyo's shady underworld. As a gaijin, a foreigner -- especially one with a gift for the artful scam -- he draws susupicion and disfavor from Japanese police. This potent mixture of stiff tradition and intrigue -- not to mention his brazen love affair with a Japanese mistress who would rather kill Harry than lose him -- fills Harry's final days in Tokyo with suspense and fear. Who is he really working for? Is he a spy? For America? For the Emperor?

Now, on the eve of Pearl Harbor, Harry himself must decide where his true allegiances lie. Suspensful, exciting, and replete with detailed research Martin Cruz Smith brings to all his novels, December 6 is a triumph of imagination, history, and storytelling melded into a magnificent whole.

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From Wiki:

In late 1941, Harry Niles has many of the same problems in Tokyo as Rick Blaine encounters at the same time in Casablanca. Harry's place, the "Happy Paris", a bar-club for American and European expatriates, newspapermen and diplomats, is in Tokyo's entertainment district and it's only 24 hours or so before Japanese fighters and bombers will hit Pearl Harbor. During that time, Niles has to consult with the local US ambassador, get rid of a passionately dangerous lover, shrug off the brutal attentions of the police, escape the vengeance of an aggrieved samurai officer and take himself off the island, the exit points from which are all tightly stoppered. Fortunately, he has the benefits of a totally unsupervised childhood in Tokyo, is fluent in the Japanese language and culture, and is subtle, swift and cunning. Fluently written, rich in background colour.