where secrets are worth more than gold

a war-ravaged American colonel stationed in Italy at the close of the Second World War

and young Nick Carraway moves to the village of West Egg

In this "overpowering and beautiful novel" (The New Yorker)

Akira, Volume 5 Format:Paperback where secrets are worth moreIN THE 21ST CENTURY, the once glittering Neo Tokyo lies in ruin, leveled in minutes by the infinite power of the child psychic Akira. From the flooded wasteland of rubble and anarchy rises the Great Tokyo Empire, populated by a ragtag army of zealots and crazies who worship and fear Akira ad his mad prime minister, Tetsuo, and angry teen with immense powers of his own and equally immense, twisted ambitions. The world at large is not taking the threat