The Way Of The Traitor: A Samurai Mystery
In a novel with echoes of Noble House, The Alchemist, and Gorky Park, Japan's preeminent detective-Samurai, Sano Ichiro, returns to risk his honor and life. In 1690 Nagasaki, Sano must crack his most sensitive case yet as he sets about to discover who killed a Dutch trader whose body has washed...
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In a novel with echoes of Noble House, The Alchemist, and Gorky Park, Japan's preeminent detective-Samurai, Sano Ichiro, returns to risk his honor and life. In 1690 Nagasaki, Sano must crack his most sensitive case yet as he sets about to discover who killed a Dutch trader whose body has washed up on the shore of a small island famed for its "barbarians."
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780679449003 (0679449000)
Publish date: June 17th 1997
Publisher: Villard
Pages no: 307
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Mystery,
Detective,
Asia,
Historical Mystery,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Japan,
Action,
17th Century
Series: Sano Ichiro (#3)
What I liked:1) The setting--Nagasaki in the 1600s, at a time when Japan was beginning to have trade relations with the Western world. This allowed for the exploration of some interesting tension between the Japanese and the Dutch traders, and Laura Joh Rowland did a great job of highlighting and ex...
This was one of the books in the series I didn't have at the time when I first read through the series. It was nice to fill in the blank spot in the time line.
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