Where to get the book

Now available from Amazon US – complete with cover image and Search Inside. Barnes & Noble now sell it as well, as do Amazon UK and Amazon Japan, together with other major online retailers. Wth luck, paper copies will appear on the shelves of Waterstones, WHS, etc.. The Waterstones and WHS links here refer to their Web sites.

ISBN is 978-4-9905165-3-6
B&W 5 x 8 in or 203 x 127 mm Perfect Bound
Page Count: 406
Publisher: j-views

ebook versions

The ebook version is now out from Smashwords (many formats, all $5.99). You can also order a more beautiful PDF version than the Smashwords one directly from me for the same price. Click here for details.

You can also order from the iBooks store on your iPhone and iPad ($5.99 – US only, to the best of my knowledge.

Signed copies

I am also accepting some orders for signed copies.

Click here if you're interested.

Sample chapter

In the meantime, here's a chapter to be getting on with.

Also visit the Beneath Gray Skies site.

BGS

At the Sharpe End on Facebook

Bestseller on Amazon Japan!
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What’s the secret of the package given to Kenneth Sharpe by a stranger in a Tokyo coffee shop? A lot of people want to know the answer, and they’re not too fussy about how they find out.


Short movie – click to expand and play


Something about the book

The BookWhen his business card is found in the pocket of a man who has died under the wheels of a train at Shinjuku station in Tokyo, Kenneth Sharpe’s life takes a turn for the worse. A freelance technology consultant usually has no business with burglary, kidnapping or murder, not to mention the overthrow of governments, but these all rapidly become disturbingly familiar parts of his life. The stakes start high, and rise higher, as Sharpe and his friends take on the might of the financial world against the backdrop of the 2008 Wall Street collapse, and the ruin of the global financial markets.

Something about the author

Hugh Ashton has lived in Japan for 22 years, working in the technology and financial services sectors. At the Sharpe End is his second published novel, following the acclaimed alternative history Beneath Gray Skies.