
The 47th Samurai
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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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- Intro
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Chapter 1: Island
- Chapter 2: The Scythe
- Chapter 3: The Blockhouse
- Chapter 4: A Request
- Chapter 5: The Old Breed
- Chapter 6: The Big White House
- Chapter 7: Narita
- Chapter 8: The Yanos
- Chapter 9: Nii of Shinsengumi
- Chapter 10: Black Rust
- Chapter 11: Steel
- Chapter 12: Sake
- Chapter 13: Kondo Isami
- Chapter 14: Ruins
- Chapter 15: Toshiro
- Chapter 16: Kirisute Gomen
- Chapter 17: Ino
- Chapter 18: The Shogun
- Chapter 19: Dr. Otowa
- Chapter 20: The Young Men
- Chapter 21: The Cop
- Chapter 22: Yakiba
- Chapter 23: The Tokyo Flash
- Chapter 24: The Eight Cuts
- Chapter 25: The Floating World
- Chapter 26: Kata
- Chapter 27: The Samurai
- Chapter 28: Dragons
- Chapter 29: The Shrine
- Chapter 30: Sword of Life
- Chapter 31: Battle
- Chapter 32: Kondo
- Chapter 33: Orders
- Chapter 34: The Taking
- Chapter 35: Face-to-Face
- Chapter 36: The White Room
- Chapter 37: Strategy
- Chapter 38: Nii's Dreams
- Chapter 39: The Kendo Champion
- Chapter 40: The Big Shots
- Chapter 41: Staging
- Chapter 42: Moon of Hell
- Chapter 43: Chushingura
- Chapter 44: Edo Justice
- Chapter 45: Steel to Steel
- Chapter 46: Office Politics
- Chapter 47: Noto
- Acknowledgments
- 'Targeted' Teaser
- Copyright
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