Bamboo Terror

About the Book

It is 1958. Ex-U.S. Army intelligence officer, Michael Hazzard, and the only foreign private detective in Japan, is offered $10,000 to deliver a cheap $5.00 string of Buddhist prayer beads to someone in Saigon, who will be identified by the phrase, “There is terror in the bamboo only for the wicked.” When he finally agrees, he finds himself the target in a bizarre plot of Oriental intrigue when he is taken hostage and brought to a guerrilla camp in the jungles of North Viet Nam.

About the Author

William James Ross was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has been a scriptwriter for the English versions of foreign films and chief dialogue editor in Japan of an American company’s Tokyo animation studio for the series of The Real Ghostbusters, Dennis the Menace, Alf Tales, Batman and many others since 1957. He is the author of The Adventures of Terry Tanuki, the Magical Raccoon, The Ghost of Kamabara and the Japanese translation of HARAGEI for Kodansha. He lives in Tokyo Japan where he is a permanent resident but still retains his American citizenship.