The Way of the Traitor
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (507 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0061010901 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Rose Shannon said Add this author to your favorite's list. Oh, my gosh! I can't find enough WONDERFUL POSITIVE adjectives to support this series. Previously, I expressed my literary interests as murder mysteries and secondly historical fiction. This morning, after continuing my total absorption in this Add this author to your favorite's list Oh, my gosh! I can't find enough WONDERFUL POSITIVE adjectives to support this series. Previously, I expressed my literary interests as murder mysteries and secondly historical fiction. This morning, after continuing my total absorption in this 3rd novel in the series, I find myself online reading whatever history I can find about 17th century Japanese/Dutch relations because I want to KNOW that m. rd novel in the series, I find myself online reading whatever history I can find about 17th century Japanese/Dutch relations because I want to KNOW that m. Paul Sayles said Excellent Story. I first read The Way of the Traitor several years ago and found it quite interesting. Now, as I write this review, I am sitting in a computer cafe in Nagasaki.Rowland's plot is quite good. Sano has found himself essentially exiled from Edo by his unintended rival the Shogun's Chamberlin. He is given the task of "inspecting" Nagasaki which is just about as far from Edo as you can go and still be in. Laura Joh Rowlands is becoming one of my favorite authors! We continue with the saga of the Shogun's detective, a medieval samurai, as he copes with political intriques, crime, and the ramifications of his own desire to always find out the truth no matter the cost. The book is well written, the characters well developed, and the story keeps you wanting to read on. The villans are enough to confuse the issue with who the real murderer is and so, the hallma
All of these skills--plus a strong sense of survival--are needed in this story about what happens when Dutch traders arrive in Nagasaki in 1690. But when the Dutch trade director is found murdered, Sano risks his neck to find the killer and satisfy his curiosity about the world outside his rigorously regimented homeland. 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 (Bundori and Shinju ar
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. Surrounded by spies, Sano must tread carefully. Sano has to unmask a killer and prove his innocence, or his samurai head, and maybe his country, will fall.. 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