re: Tokyo Vice season 2 starts Feb 8 (next Thursday)

Great show.

I actually picked up the book last week. As one might expect given his career, the book has been highly entertaining and very narrative. I only just started it a couple of days ago so it'll be interesting to see what is taken from the book and what isn't. All I can say is that the scene where Tozawa's right hand tells him not to publish the story or they'll kill him and his family is nearly verbatim from the book.

Only being in the first couple of chapters, it's interesting to note that when he started his career a veteran of the industry gave him 8 rules to live by as a reporter - the #1 rule was to never give up a source. I'm fascinated to see if the real Jake gave up a source to get his biggest story or if that was just part of the show.