A leading economist at the Ministry of Finance is thrown out of the window of a fashionable Tokyo hotel. Is this suicide? Who is behind the crushing jumps in the exchange rate of the yen against the dollar on currency exchanges around the world? What's behind the growing anti-Japanese sentiment in the US? What connects the most powerful financial group in Japan, the most aggressive national information network and the “new wave” of the Japanese yakuza mafia? These are the traces of the secret revanchist organization “Silent Thunder”, seeking to destroy the world financial system created by the “rotten West”. The fanatics' goal is to return Japan to its "special national destiny." A motley team is trying to resist them - a private detective from the former “leftists”, a financial analyst suddenly transferred from London to Hokkaido, and a stockbroker tied up in life.

The uniqueness of the book “Silent Thunder” by Peter Tasker, an Oxford graduate and one of the world's leading financial strategists, is that it is both a brilliant thriller and an insightful analysis of the real forces governing Japan. The reader finds himself not only in the offices, ultra-fashionable restaurants and private clubs where Japanese national politics are made, but also in crowded trains, street eateries and massage parlors, where behind the facade of a world superpower the reality of another Japan oozes with blood and sweat in half.