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Bob 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. More than sixty years later, Yano comes to America to honor the legacy of his heroic father by recovering the sword he found 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 Yanos quest. Bob Lee finds the sword and offers it to Yano in Tokyo. On inspection, they find that it is not a typical WWII blade, but a legendary shin-shinto katana, an artifact of the nation. It really is priceless but worth killing for. Suddenly Bob is at the center of some terrible crimes he barely understands but vows to avenge. And to accomplish that, he throws himself in to the world of the samurai, Tokyos dark, criminal yakuza underworld, and the unwritten rules of Japanese culture. Swaggers 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 best echelons of japan government, however in the end, he's by himself and can succeed only if he can learn that to survive samurai, you must become samurai. As the plot races and the violence escalates, it becomes clear a ruthless conspiracy is in place, and the only thing that can be taken for granted is the fact money, power, and sex can drive men of all nationalities to gruesome extremes. If Swagger hopes to avoid them, he must be willing not only to die but also to kill.
