The 47th samurai
Subtitle: a Bob Lee Swagger novel
By: Stephen Hunter
Edition: Pocket Star Books pbk. ed.
Publisher: Pocket Star Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780743458009
Copyright date: 2007
Other titles: Forty-seventh samurai
Table of contents: title: 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 .... as they discover too late when someone steals the sword, slaughtering Yano's entire family, save for one small girl, in the process. Swagger sets out avenge the Yanos and retrieve the sword .....