The 69 Pleasures by Gardner F. Fox

Author:Gardner F. Fox [Fox, Gardner F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Action Adventure, Erotica, femme fatale, Secret agent, Sexpionage, Vintage Sleaze
Publisher: Gardner Francis Fox Library
Published: 2020-03-29T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

A Tokyo taxicab was waiting for me at Haneda Airport. A uniformed Japanese was the driver. He bowed me through the terminal, bowed me into the back seat and bowed my baggage in beside me.

Then he drove me along the expressway, skirting Tokyo harbor and the Hama Gardens to my hotel, the lavishly luxurious Hotel Imperial, one of those thoroughly modern hostelries which had been built with the 1964 Olympics in mind.

Tokyo is reputedly the largest city in the world, possessing over ten million inhabitants. Known as Edo in the years when it was founded by a samurai warrior, Dokan Ota, during the sixteenth century, it had a fine river, the Sumida, and an excellent harbor to attract trade and industry. By the early part of the eighteenth century, it could boast a million people living in its little wood and paper houses.

In 1868, the name Edo was change to that of Tokyo, and became the capitol of the Japanese islands. The people believed they were a superior race, for all that they were descended from Mongols who entered Japan around the middle of the seventh century, B. C. Their emperor was a deity, and their pantheon of gods and goddesses listened to their prayers, as taught by their Shinto religion.

Long before that, in the 1500s, Portuguese and missionaries, with British and Dutch merchants, came to stay in Japan for a while, until Ieyasu Tokugawa, then ruler of the Land of the Rising Sun, decided that too much ferment was being caused in his empire by the foreign devils. Foreigners were thrown out, and those Japanese who had become Christians were crucified.

Japan then became as mysterious as Venus for two centuries, until Admiral Perry came with his American warships and the bamboo curtain which Ieyasu Tokugawa lowered over Japan was rent apart forever. From its old traditions, Japan became a part of the Industrial Revolution; as, after World War II, it adopted Western styles and customs.

L.U.S.T. had made arrangements for me to stay at the Hotel Imperial, which is in the heart of the Akasaka district. It had a swimming pool, a Japanese garden with paper lanterns, gurgling water fountains, and lichen covered trees. It was a little paradise. Unfortunately for me, my paradise was about to be invaded by a devil named Miguel Sorolla, and it was my job to put the devil into hell.

I registered for a suite in case anybody from the Embassy wanted to contact me. Then I sat down and phoned Hong Kong. My friend, the assistant consul, answered, duly apologetic. There had been a mix-up Miguel Sorolla had requested a later flight. He had been seen buying a camera. It became known, by checking around discreetly, that the man from Macao was a shutterbug.

I remembered suddenly that in the snapshot of him taken by Lucy Chang's private eye friend, he had been carrying a German Rolleiflex on a leather strap around his neck. Apparently the Rolleiflex was not enough for him. He had also bought a Swiss-made Hasselblad.

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