{"product_id":"the-47th-samurai-9780743458009","title":"The 47th Samurai","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe 47th Samurai, \u003c\/i\u003e Bob Lee Swagger, the gritty hero of Stephen Hunter's bestselling novels \u003ci\u003ePoint of Impact\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTime to Hunt, \u003c\/i\u003e returns in this intense and exotic thriller.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBob Lee Swagger and Philip Yano are bound together by a single moment at Iwo Jima, 1945, when their fathers, two brave fighters on opposite sides, met in the bloody and chaotic battle for the island. Only Earl Swagger survived. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e More than sixty years later, Yano comes to America to honor the legacy of his heroic father by recovering the sword he used in the battle. His search has led him to Crazy Horse, Idaho, where Bob Lee, ex-marine and Vietnam veteran, has settled into a restless retirement and immediately pledges himself to Yano's quest. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Bob Lee finds the sword and delivers it to Yano in Tokyo. On inspection, they discover that it is not a standard WWII blade, but a legendary shin-shinto katana, an artifact of the nation. It is priceless but worth killing for. Suddenly Bob is at the center of a series of terrible crimes he barely understands but vows to avenge. And to do so, he throws himself into the world of the samurai, Tokyo's dark, criminal yakuza underworld, and the unwritten rules of Japanese culture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Swagger's allies, hard-as-nails, American-born Susan Okada and the brave, cocaine-dealing tabloid journalist Nick Yamamoto, help him move through this strange, glittering, and ominous world from the shady bosses of the seamy Kabukicho district to officials in the highest echelons of the Japanese government, but in the end, he is on his own and will succeed only if he can learn that to survive samurai, you must become samurai. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As the plot races and the violence escalates, it becomes clear that a ruthless conspiracy is in place, and the only thing that can be taken for granted is that money, power, and sex can drive men of all nationalities to gruesome extremes. If Swagger hopes to stop them, he must be willing not only to die but also to kill.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHunter, Stephen:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Stephen Hunter has written over twenty novels. The retired chief film critic for \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, where he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism, he has also published two collections of film criticism and a nonfiction work, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Gunfight\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.","brand":"Pocket Star","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50707493257490,"sku":"9780743458009","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_93c227d2-0afa-4b1b-9b7f-43ca99abdd83.jpg?v=1734496213","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-47th-samurai-9780743458009","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}