false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1189044592m/339231.jpg 339231 11 In <I>The 47th Samurai,</i> Bob Lee Swagger, the gritty hero of Stephen Hunter's bestselling novels <I>Point of Impact</i> and <I>Time to Hunt,</i> returns in Hunter's most intense and exotic thriller to date. 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 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. 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. 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. 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. 1722472 2006 The 47th Samurai (Bob Lee Swagger, #4) total:246|5:41|4:84|3:85|2:25|1:11| 246 857 352 62 4 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 01 20:07:57 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 27 19:46:02 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 1 false false Mon Jan 26 08:40:29 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 09:26:10 -0800 2009
I was stuck at an airport recently with nothing to read so decided to pick this book up. Though it’s not my first choice, I generally enjoy the action/suspense genre and have read plenty of Clancy, Lee Child, and my newest favorite, Barry Eisler. This book seemed fairly ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Nov 22 07:17:54 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 07:23:13 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue May 19 17:24:46 -0700 2009 Sat May 30 08:54:52 -0700 2009 It seems as though the author took one tri...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jan 24 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 08:50:33 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 15:00:23 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Dec 22 11:54:52 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 11:59:47 -0800 2008 I did enjoy the background of Japan's warrior culture, and the sword stuff. ]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Apr 02 11:06:25 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 11:07:11 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 11:59:10 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 12:01:27 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 17:51:25 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 17:58:42 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jan 10 23:23:25 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 23:29:02 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Apr 19 08:31:59 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 19 08:38:58 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Apr 27 19:45:49 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 19:47:06 -0700 2009 1 0 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 30 03:59:03 -0700 2008 Fri May 02 05:31:14 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 11 11:03:09 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 11 11:05:34 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Dec 09 07:12:45 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 09 07:14:34 -0800 2008 1 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 29 07:46:46 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 13 06:41:14 -0700 2008
i almost never walk away from a book unfinished, but life is too short for me to read another chapter of hunter clearing his throat and failing to move the story along. the guy is a masterful movie cri...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat May 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 17:03:42 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 20:50:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jun 02 18:12:25 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 18:13:44 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Feb 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 22:20:35 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 22:23:05 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Tue Sep 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 01 13:12:56 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 01 13:17:25 -0700 2008
This novel was possibly the most outrageous in terms of what Bob Lee accomplishes in the novel, bu...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=339231