Book Description:
Publisher: Crime Wave Press  (March 8, 2013)
Category: Action/Adventure, Mystery/Thriller/Suspense, Crime Thriller
Tour Date: Mid May, 2013
Available in: Print &  eBook, 380 pages
Working Tokyo nightclubs is easy money for beautiful and troubled American Val Benson – until a client with a rather unusual hobby – painting the private parts of his female liaisons – reluctantly gives up a map to a stash of Japanese war loot and tempts his favourite girl into a dangerous treasure hunt.
The Congressman’s daughter is not the only one interested in the map: yakuza, bent cops, human traffickers, rogue CIA agents and her father are hot on her trail, snapping at her high heels.
So begins the dark, epic journey of a new anti-hero of Asian Noir, a protagonist both ambiguous and courageous, and utterly unreliable. From comfort women and tomb-raiding in Japanese-occupied Burma to the murderous echoes of the Vietnam War, long forgotten crimes come roaring back to life, as Val leaves a trail of destruction and chaos in her wake.
Together with her best friend, the equally unreliable nightclub hostess Suki, Val travels through Tokyo, Hong Kong and Bangkok to the Thai-Burmese borderlands for a dramatic showdown with her pursuers. Finding the treasure before everyone else does is her only hope for survival, and perhaps redemption.
My Thoughts:
As you may have noticed lately I have been trying to read more books out of the usual genres I normally read.  I use to like mysteries and crime thrillers when I was much younger and I’m not sure why I stopped reading them.  Perhaps it was because I read quite a bit of John Grisham and started finding all of his books to be pretty formulaic.
Jame DiBiasio’s Gaijin Cowgirl, is definitely not formulaic! It caught my interest in the very beginning when we meet Val Benson and held me throughout the book.  I felt like I was a character in the book and experienced everything Val did..  Once the book got going the action was pretty much non-stop..  
DiBiasio has broken the mold with this fast paced thriller.  I found it unique and refreshing.  His writing is clear and poetic.  I loved the bit of WWII historical fiction he included.  Rather than the usual, German or European story line, The focus here was Japanese.  I would love to see that explored more in a novel.   The plot is strong and the conclusion satisfying yet seemed to leave room for the possibility for a sequel.  I hope there is!  I would love to read more by Jame DiBiasio!  Highly recommended!
5/5
I received the ebook version of this book for my honest opinion.
About Jame DiBiasio:

Jame DiBiasio is an award-winning financial journalist and editor. He is author of the non-fictionThe Story of Angkor (published by Silkworm Books in 2013) and blogs at http://asiahacks.com. He lives in Hong Kong. The Gaijin Cowgirl is his first fiction novel.
Thanks to the publisher, Crimewave Press and the author, Jame DiBiasio, I am giving away one copy of the Gaijin Cowgirl.  This giveaway is open internationally.  If the winner lives in the U.S., there is the choice of print, mobi, or pdf.  If international, the choice is mobi or pdf.  This giveaway ends on June 25, 2013.  Please use Rafflecopter to enter..

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