Chapter 31A dozen mahjong tables were spread through the cavernous room, but they weren’t the usual functional green felt and laminated wood. Instead these were made of inlaid wood atop an angled base of black lacquered steel with gold accents. Atop each table, copper-topped tiles were stacked in walls and laid open on the black felt. Glass-domed lights on long silver rods hung down from an industrial-chic track that curved along the high ceiling and the exposed concrete walls were hung with Persian and Chinese carpets that dampened the clack of the tiles.
Hiroshi and Sugamo stepped out of the elevator and surveyed the room. Play stopped and the room dropped to a hush. The waitstaff, young men and women in prim waistcoats with drink trays, halted in place. The men in the high-backed chair
