The year is 1690, and the place is Nagasakiβa city where superstition, politics, and greed reign supreme, and a corrupt government which fears foreign invasion like a plague rules with an iron fist. It is here that the mutilated body of Jan Spaen, a prominent Dutch trader and one of the few Westerne
The Way of the Traitor
β Scribed by Rowland, Laura Joh
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 205 KB
- Series
- Sano Ichiro Mysteries 3
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780061010903
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β¦ Synopsis
SUMMARY: A volatile, corrupt city threatened by toreign invasion and ru by an iron-fisted government, Nagasaki is the last place Sano Ichiro wants to be, Unfortunately, the shogun's Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People has been banished there by a wicked adversary in the shogun's court. Surrounded by spies, Sano must tread carefully. When the body of a Dutch trader washes ashore, he finds himself leading an investigation that could push Japan into war -- even as it thrusts his life into the hands of powerful enemies. Sano has to unmask a killer and prove his innocence, or his samurai head, and maybe his country, will fall.
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### Amazon.com Review Samurai Sano Ichiro, our guide through the intricacies of life and death in 17th-century Japan in Laura Joh Rowland's evocative and accessible mysteries ( **and** are available in paperback) is called the Shogun's Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People.