From an author with "a painter's eye for the minutiae of court life [and] a politician's ear for intrigue," a retelling of the revenge tale of the 47 Ronin (The New York Times).Japan, 1703. On a snowy night, forty-seven warriors murder the man at the center of the scandal that turned them from samurai into masterless ronin two years before. Clearly this was an act of revenge—but why did they wait so long? And is there any reason they should not immediately be ordered to commit ritual suicide?Sano Ichiro, demoted from Chamberlain to his old post as Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People, has mere days to solve the greatest mystery of samurai legend—while his own fortunes hang in the balance."Sano may carry a sword and wear a kimono, but you'll immediately recognize him as an ancestor of Philip Marlowe or Sam Spade." —The Denver Post
From an author with "a painter's eye for the minutiae of court life [and] a politician's ear for intrigue," a retelling of the revenge tale of the 47 Ronin (The New York Times).Japan, 1703. On a snowy night, forty-seven warriors murder the man at the center of the scandal that turned them from samurai into masterless ronin two years before. Clearly this was an act of revenge—but why did they wait so long? And is there any reason they should not immediately be ordered to commit ritual suicide?Sano Ichiro, demoted from Chamberlain to his old post as Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People, has mere days to solve the greatest mystery of samurai legend—while his own fortunes hang in the balance."Sano may carry a sword and wear a kimono, but you'll immediately recognize him as an ancestor of Philip Marlowe or Sam Spade." —The Denver Post
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