Theo St. John is an author with a background in Civil Engineering and a career in the audiovisual field. After years working in film, television, and advertising production, he turned to fiction, exploring the boundaries between emotion and morality.
His writing combines cinematic precision with a raw, visual literary sensibility. Fascinated by the psychology of identity and the choices that define human nature in moments of crisis, St. John crafts stories where silence carries as much weight as words.
My Father the Yakuza is his debut novel—an intense and introspective work that places the reader between the legacy of blood and the burden of truth.
Some fathers should stay buried.
Jack Turner vanished from London and resurfaced in Tokyo's underworld, building a life with the Yakuza through violence and silence. For years, he thought he'd escaped—until journalist Emily Watson appears with a photograph and questions that threaten everything.
Emily has spent her life searching for the father she never knew, driven to understand why she craves the violence she's supposed to fear. But digging into Tokyo's shadows stirs fear among Jack's former comrades, and the past rises with a blade in hand.
Betrayed by his brothers and hunted by the empire he built, Jack wages a savage war to save the daughter he never knew—and destroy the organization that wants them both dead.
A gritty crime thriller set in Kabukichō's neon-lit underworld, where family demands loyalty and betrayal is paid in blood.
Fans of psychological suspense and international crime thrillers will devour this dark tale of inherited violence and yakuza vengeance.
