A Debt in Ash

<h2>A Debt in Ash</h2><p><strong>They burned his history. He will salt their earth.</strong></p><p>Kenji Oni Tanaka was a legend in Fukuoka's underworld. As a top <strong>former enforcer</strong> for a powerful Yakuza family his name alone was a weapon his demonic back tattoo a symbol of the brutal unwavering discipline that made him the most feared man in the city. But he walked away from it all trading a life of violence for the quiet anonymous toil of a construction worker burying the ghost of the Oni under a fragile peace. <strong>He thought his past was dead.</strong></p><p>He was wrong.</p><p>In the rain-slicked neon-drenched streets of Fukuoka a new kind of <strong>modern gangster</strong> has risen to power. Goro Kuno is a charismatic and sadistic viper leading a ruthless faction that spits on the old <strong>honor code</strong>. His methods are not business; they are public executions and psychological terror designed to shatter the old world and build a new empire from its ashes. When Goro's war spills into the civilian world and targets the one person Kenji swore to protect-his sister-the ghost of the Oni is dragged back into the fight.</p><p>Framed for a crime he didn't commit Kenji becomes a pariah in the world he once ruled. To save his sister from a <strong>high stakes kidnapping</strong> he must become a <strong>one man army</strong> waging a solo war against an enemy with limitless resources and no morality. This is a <strong>Japanese noir</strong> world of relentless chases <strong>brutal combat</strong> and impossible odds where every shadow holds a new enemy and every ally is a potential traitor. <strong>Now he is a ghost in a city that wants him dead.</strong></p><p>This <strong>hardboiled action</strong> epic is a visceral <strong>revenge thriller</strong> that never lets up. To save the last piece of his family this <strong>anti hero protagonist</strong> must fully embrace the demon he tried to bury. But in a war against a man who has no honor can he afford to keep his own? Or will he have to burn down his entire world to protect the last good thing in it?</p>