The Samurai's Wife

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IN THE IMPERIAL CITY OF KYOTO,_^| POWER ISMERELY CEREMONIALBUT AN ÁNCBENT EVIL STELL SURVTVEsiJ I Far írom the shogun's court at Edo, Most Honoiabl||* Investigator Sano Ichirö begins the most challengingl case of hiscaieer. Upon the insistence of his strong-willed | and beautiful wife Reiko, Sano anives with her at th^ l} emperor's palace to unmask the muideier-who possessess I the secret of kiai"the spirit cry,"a powerful seream tfÉtl can kill instantly. A high Kyoto official is the victn. ( Treading carefully through a web of spies, political intrigte^ \ forbidden passions, and intricate plots, Sano and RwqjL* must struggle to stay ahead of the palace stonns J|fí(» outwit a cunning killer. But as they soon díseover, sol\$ig» the case means more than their survival. For if they JailX Japan could be consumed in the bloodiest war ithas]| éverseen... ..4 i A legendary land comes alive in this compelling muSr mysteiv set in seventeenth-century Japan. Filled with finely drawn characters... Tovább

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IN THE IMPERIAL CITY OF KYOTO,_^| POWER ISMERELY CEREMONIALBUT AN ÁNCBENT EVIL STELL SURVTVEsiJ I Far írom the shogun's court at Edo, Most Honoiabl||* Investigator Sano Ichirö begins the most challengingl case of hiscaieer. Upon the insistence of his strong-willed | and beautiful wife Reiko, Sano anives with her at th^ l} emperor's palace to unmask the muideier-who possessess I the secret of kiai"the spirit cry,"a powerful seream tfÉtl can kill instantly. A high Kyoto official is the victn. ( Treading carefully through a web of spies, political intrigte^ \ forbidden passions, and intricate plots, Sano and RwqjL* must struggle to stay ahead of the palace stonns J|fí(» outwit a cunning killer. But as they soon díseover, sol\$ig» the case means more than their survival. For if they JailX Japan could be consumed in the bloodiest war ithas]| éverseen... ..4 i A legendary land comes alive in this compelling muSr mysteiv set in seventeenth-century Japan. Filled with finely drawn characters and suspensefuí plot twists, The Samurai's Wife is a növel as complex, vivid, and artful as th^ glorious, lost world it portrays. "As a fan of Shogun, it s easy to say that The Samurai's Wife provided me witfc the same sense of place and culture that was so invigorating j in James Clavell s epic yarn... .Rowland s a pretty 1 terrific storyteller."-Chicago Tribüné Vissza