By Stephen Hunter
ISBN-10: 0743458001
ISBN-13: 9780743458009
Book Details:
ISBN: 0743458001
EAN: 9780743458009
ASIN: 0743458001
Publisher: Pocket Star
Publication Date: 2008-11-25
Number of Pages: 496
Website: Amazon, LibraryThing, Google Books, Goodreads
Synopsis from Amazon:
In The forty seventh Samurai, Bob Lee Swagger, the gritty hero of Stephen Hunter's bestselling novels Point of Impact and Time to Hunt, returns in Hunter's so much extreme and unique mystery up to now.
Bob Lee Swagger and Philip Yano are sure jointly through a unmarried second at Iwo Jima, 1945, while their fathers, courageous combatants on contrary aspects, met within the bloody and chaotic conflict for the island. purely Earl Swagger survived.
greater than sixty years later, Yano involves the United States to honor the legacy of his heroic father by way of improving the sword he utilized in the conflict. His seek has led him to silly Horse, Idaho, the place Bob Lee, ex-marine and Vietnam veteran, has settled right into a stressed retirement and instantly pledges himself to Yano's quest.
Bob Lee unearths the sword and promises it to Yano in Tokyo. On inspection, they detect that it's not a regular WWII blade, yet a mythical shin-shinto katana, an artifact of the country. it really is useful yet worthy killing for. all at once Bob is on the middle of a chain of negative crimes he slightly knows yet vows to avenge. And to take action, he throws himself into the area of the samurai, Tokyo's darkish, felony yakuza underworld, and the unwritten principles of eastern tradition.
Swagger's allies, hard-as-nails, American-born Susan Okada and the courageous, cocaine-dealing tabloid journalist Nick Yamamoto, aid him go through this unusual, glittering, and ominous global from the shady bosses of the seamy Kabukicho district to officers within the maximum echelons of the japanese executive, yet after all, he's on his personal and should be triumphant provided that he can research that to outlive samurai, you need to turn into samurai.
because the plot races and the violence escalates, it turns into transparent ruthless conspiracy is in position, and the one factor that may be taken with no consideration is that cash, energy, and intercourse can force males of all nationalities to ugly extremes. If Swagger hopes to prevent them, he has to be prepared not just to die but in addition to kill.
GoodReads writer Information:
Author Name: Stephen Hunter (Born: 1946/03/25)
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Stephen Hunter is the writer of fourteen novels, and a main movie critic on the Washington publish, the place he gained the 2003 Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.Author URL: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/12546
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He didn’t hit me hard—my pride was stung more than my rear, since I was too old, in my opinion, for a spanking. ” My gaze moved from the sled to a tall wood shed twenty paces from the driveway near the south corner of the property. I had personally chopped and stacked enough wood to fill that shed several times over. Starting at age ten my father would send me to chop wood for an hour or two every time I said something negative about golf, and if I so much as blinked when he told me to grab an axe and get to work, the punishment was doubled.
He paused briefly before answering, and when he spoke, his words were full of pain and regret. “I thought you were asleep—you had been. ” He paused again. “Come get in the car, Augusta. ” I reluctantly did as he said and we drove back to his house. Neither of us spoke along the way. When we got there, he led me through the house to my old bedroom, which had since been converted to a den. Against one wall was the wooden chest that Dad had always kept locked up at the foot of his bed. He grabbed a key from the top drawer of his credenza, unlocked the chest, and flipped open the lid.
London’s lip curled up at the edges, but he didn’t say anything in response. I breathed out heavily. “You know what? Let’s just get this over with. ” He nodded. ” I mumbled under my breath as I picked up the new bag and started walking to the first tee box. It was still early enough in Vermont’s golfing season that there was no waiting to tee off. The fairways and greens in late April are so soggy that everyone but the nuts like my father stays away for at least a few more weeks. When we got to the first tee, I took some practice swings with my driver.
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