Laura Joh Rowland - The Way of the Traitor (Sano Ichiro Mystery)
Laura Joh Rowland - The Way of the Traitor (Sano Ichiro Mystery)
Publisher: HarperTorch | ISBN: 0061010901 | 1998 | EPUB/MOBI | 384 pages | 306 KB/463 KB
In 1690 Japan, the ruling shogun's jealous chamberlain curtails the power of the shogun's favorite samurai detective, Sano Ichiro, by sending him to faraway Nagasaki. Sano immediately risks life and limb to discover how a Dutch trader escaped confinement and wound up murdered. Since Japanese paranoia decrees isolation of Western "barbarians," strict trade regulation, persecution of Christians, and samurai adherence to code, Sano's investigation is fraught with multitudinous dangers. Anything that can happen does?deceit, arson, assault, mayhem?with constant action compensating for any lack of subtlety, depth, or originality.