The 47th samurai
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Bob Lee Swagger novels volume 4.
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Published:
New York : Pocket Star Books, 2008.
Format:
Book
Edition:
Pocket Star Books paperback edition.
Physical Desc:
461 pages ; 20 cm.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780743458009, 0743458001, 9780743458009 (pbk.), 0743458001 (pbk.)
Notes
General Note
"A novel"--Cover.
General Note
Copyright date 2007.
General Note
Includes an excerpt from Night of thunder.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Description
Bob Lee Swagger and Philip Yano are bound together by a single moment at Iwo Jima, 1945, when their fathers, two brave fighters on opposite sides, met in the bloody and chaotic battle for the island. Only Earl Swagger survived. More than sixty years later, Yano comes to America to honor the legacy of his heroic father by recovering the sword he used in the battle. His search has led him to Crazy Horse, Idaho, where Bob Lee, ex-marine and Vietnam veteran, has settled into a restless retirement and immediately pledges himself to Yano's quest. Bob Lee finds the sword and delivers it to Yano in Tokyo. On inspection, they discover that it is not a standard WWII blade, but a legendary shin-shinto katana, an artifact of the nation. It is priceless but worth killing for. Suddenly Bob is at the center of a series of terrible crimes he barely understands but vows to avenge. And to do so, he throws himself into the world of the samurai, Tokyo's dark, criminal yakuza underworld, and the unwritten rules of Japanese culture. Swagger's allies, hard-as-nails, American-born Susan Okada and the brave, cocaine-dealing tabloid journalist Nick Yamamoto, help him move through this strange, glittering, and ominous world from the shady bosses of the seamy Kabukicho district to officials in the highest echelons of the Japanese government, but in the end, he is on his own and will succeed only if he can learn that to survive samurai, you must become samurai. As the plot races and the violence escalates, it becomes clear that a ruthless conspiracy is in place, and the only thing that can be taken for granted is that money, power, and sex can drive men of all nationalities to gruesome extremes. If Swagger hopes to stop them, he must be willing not only to die but also to kill.
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APA Citation (style guide)
Hunter, S. (2008). The 47th samurai. Pocket Star Books paperback edition. Pocket Star Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Hunter, Stephen, 1946-. 2008. The 47th Samurai. Pocket Star Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Hunter, Stephen, 1946-, The 47th Samurai. Pocket Star Books, 2008.
MLA Citation (style guide)Hunter, Stephen. The 47th Samurai. Pocket Star Books paperback edition. Pocket Star Books, 2008.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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