Isaac Adamson, born in Fort Collins, Colorado in 1971, is the American author of a series of mystery novels set in Japan and featuring journalist and amateur detective Billy Chaka. Adamson currently lives in Chicago, Illinois. He is married to Chee-Soo Kim.
After graduating from Rocky Mountain High School in Fort Collins, Adamson attended UCLA briefly before graduating from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a degree in Film Studies.
All four of his Billy Chaka novels were published by HarperCollins. None of them are in print anymore.
Adamson's first novel, Tokyo Suckerpunch, is being made into a film by Sony Pictures Entertainment, starring Tobey Maguire in the role of Billy Chaka.