Bob Lee Swagger, the son of the gritty hero in Hunter\'s bestsellers Point of Impact and Time to Hunt, avenges his father in the Pulitzer Prize-winning author\'s most intense and exotic thriller to date.
If Swagger hopes to stop them, he must be willing not only to die but also to kill..
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.
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.
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.
Suddenly Bob is at the center of a series of terrible crimes he barely understands but vows to avenge.
It is priceless but worth killing for.
On inspection, they discover that it is not a standard WWII blade, but a legendary shin-shinto katana, an artifact of the nation.
Bob Lee finds the sword and delivers it to Yano in Tokyo.
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.
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.
Only Earl Swagger survived.
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.
In The 47th Samurai, Bob Lee Swagger, the gritty hero of Stephen Hunter\'s bestselling novels Point of Impact and Time to Hunt, returns in this intense and exotic thriller.
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Bob Lee Swagger, the son of the gritty hero in Hunter\'s bestsellers Point of Impact and Time to Hunt, avenges his father in the Pulitzer Prize-winning author\'s most intense and exotic thriller to date
