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 0061010901
- ISBN13 9780061010903
- Publish Date 3 April 1998 (first published 17 June 1997)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 18 October 2011
- Publish Country US
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Imprint HarperPaperbacks
- Format Paperback
- Pages 384
- Language English