Way of the Traitor

Laura Joh Rowland

ISBN: 9781845299057
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Constable and Robinson

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Nagasaki, 1690. When the mutilated body of a Dutch trader washes up on Nagasaki shore, Sano Ichiro - the Samuri detective - finds himself leading a murder investigation that could thrust Japan into war. Framed for treason, Sano must find the killer to prove his own innocence ...before his head dishonourably decorates the town square.

Nagasaki, 1690. An exotic, volatile city where a corrupt government fears foreign invasion like the plague and rules with an iron fist. Spies lurk in every corner waiting to accuse anyone of following the way of the traitor - a crime punishable by death. It's the last place Sano Ichiro, the Shogun's Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations and People, wants to be sent. But when the mutilated body of a Dutch trader washes up on Nagasaki shore, the Samuri detective finds himself leading a murder investigation that could thrust Japan into war. Framed for treason, Sano must find the killer to prove his own innocence ...before his head dishonourably decorates the town square.

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