Kei Takizawa is the deposed heir to the Fender’s industrial empire based in Texas, but his only passion is the traditional Japanese art of origami in which he has achieved total mastery. After his parents’ divorce, he turns his back on a promising future by choosing the life of a waster in Tokyo where he finds himself unwittingly involved in a criminal cabal and is forced to join a mysterious organization in order to escape a prison sentence. Completely at sea in a strange and disturbing world, flirting with the absurd, he discovers the bizarre realities of spatio-temporal travel. It’s there that he meets the colleague who becomes his friend and mentor as well as the woman who will change his outlook on life. Fighting against the overwhelming setbacks that fate has in store, the labyrinth of his extraordinary destiny takes him back to 1963’s Dallas where his path will cross that of President Kennedy…
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Born in France in 1967 in a lost region called Auvergne, Chris Ranchoux has shown since his early life a strong passion for Japan and he moved there in his 20s to pursue his academic cursus at the University of Tokyo. For more than 20 years, Chris has worked in the "luxury" industry. Working in Japan and abroad as a Country General Manager for several of the most prestigious houses of Jewelry and traditional watch making. The taste of glittering and overstatement as well as the stench of political alliances and betrayal tired him along the years. Nevertheless, it enabled him also to establish the foundations of some intrigues or some wicked characters appearing in his books. Now, he writes books and do illustration works, retired in the deep mountains of Japan. But the specter of his business life follows him like a shadow and it never fades away...
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