Girl in a Box

<p>Chronically underemployed Japanese-American sleuth Rei Shimura has taken a freelance gig with a Washington D.C. alphabet agency that just might have ties to the CIA. Her mission should she choose to accept it is to go undercover as a clerk in a big Tokyo department store. It's a risky assignment but it also gives Rei a store discount that allows her to freely indulge her shopaholic tendencies.</p><p>Meanwhile she's listening in on private conversations crashing a conference and fending off the unwanted advances of a couple of the store's executives who seem fascinated by her navel ring. When her cover is blown Rei is in big trouble. Suddenly she's neck-deep in something very nasty and it will take all her resourcefulness and unorthodox methods to survive a determined killer. </p>