Rising Sun: A Novel

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . From the author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes this riveting thriller of corporate intrigue and cutthroat competition between American and Japanese business interests.   "As well built a thrill machine as a suspense novel can be."-The New York Times Book Review   On the forty-fifth floor of the Nakamoto tower in downtown Los Angeles-the new American headquarters of the immense Japanese conglomerate-a grand opening celebration is in full swing.
  On the forty-sixth floor, in an empty conference room, the corpse of a beautiful young woman is discovered.   The investigation immediately becomes a headlong chase through a twisting maze of industrial intrigue, a no-holds-barred conflict in which control of a vital American technology is the fiercely coveted prize-and in which the Japanese saying "Business is war" takes on a terrifying reality.
  "A grand maze of plot twists .