Nagasaki, 1690. An exotic, volatile city where a corrupt government fears foreign invasion like the plague and rules with an iron fist. Spies lurk in every corner waiting to accuse anyone of following the way of the traitor - a crime punishable by death. It's the last place Sano Ichiro, the Shogun's Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations and People, wants to be sent. But when the mutilated body of a Dutch trader washes up on Nagasaki shore, the Samuri detective finds himself leading a murder investigation that could thrust Japan into war. Framed for treason, Sano must find the killer to prove his own innocence...before his head dishonourably decorates the town square.
- ISBN10 0609000802
- ISBN13 9780609000809
- Publish Date 31 August 1999 (first published 17 June 1997)
- Publish Status Remaindered
- Imprint Random House Value Publishing
- Format Hardcover
- Language English