Synopses & Reviews
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"This is the novel Hunter's fans have been waiting for....Hunter celebrates the samurai soldier while showing the appalling underside of the samurai way of life and the ideals that drive it." Booklist (Starred Review)
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"Hunter is a great entertainer, one of our finest practitioners of the classic blood-soaked and propulsive American thriller. With fluid, confident prose he writes big stories of a man, mostly alone, who must go forth for us all and slay the dragon." Daniel Woodrell, The Washington Post Book World
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"Hunter has shown repeatedly that he knows how to crank up the adrenaline, and for the most part, he does that here. That said, Samurai isn't his tautest or most well-executed book." Rocky Mountain News
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"Although heavy on both the explanations of Japanese customs and the sordid world of incredibly savage Japanese criminals, this work is compelling, exciting, and satisfying, a dark adventure that will appeal to thriller fans." Library Journal
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"The realism, the history and the understanding that informs the tale from first page to last required nothing short of immersion....Put this one on your 'must-read' list." BookReporter.com
Synopsis
New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hunter combines the raw grittiness of 1945 Iwo Jima with the mystique of the samurai culture to create his best thriller to date.
About the Author
Bestselling author Stephen Hunter is a staff writer and film critic for the Washington Post and winner of the American Society of Newspaper Editors Award for Distinguished Writing in Criticism (1998), as well as the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for film criticism. He is the author of several bestselling novels, including Pale Horse Coming, Time to Hunt, Black Light, Point of Impact, and the New York Times bestseller Hot Springs. He lives in Baltimore.