FLOATING CITY by Eric Lustbader

 This was a paperback that I bought at the library booksale on Sa 4/13/19

I was surprised to learn that "Eric Van Lustbader took over the Jason Bourne series from Robert Ludlum on his death. Ludlum had just published The Bourne Identity, sharing the New York Times bestseller list with Lustbader's The Ninja and Ludlum wanted to meet his rival. The pair talked long into the night."

I read to page 200 of this 500 page novel when I finally gave up. Too many characters and almost a complete lack of focus. It was not worth the effort to finish.

"A ruthless American killing machine named Rock rules over a secret, blood-soaked empire of riches and murder: Floating City. At his command is the Torch—the tool of ultimate evil that one man can destroy: Nicholas Linnear. But only when he faces the harrowing truth about the Yakuza—the Japanese criminal underworld he despises—and about Koei, the woman he loved as no other, will he find the inner strength to annihilate Floating City and honor his family’s debt to the dead of the Yakuza, the Kaisho. While half a world away, his longtime friend and ex-NYPD detective Lew Croaker hunts the Kaisho’s would-be assassins, Linnear infiltrates a vast web of terror, crossing the line that divides good from evil, sensuality from death, and love from betrayal."

At page 200 the characters had not even reached 'The Floating City'. 

The only idea that interested me was the collusion between the American government and the Yakuza. After WWII the Americans dealt with the Yakuza to keep the new Japanese government in line. 

Too many good books, and too little time for bad.