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by: Stephen Hunter
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780743458009
ISBN: 0743458001
Label: Pocket Star
Manufacturer: Pocket Star
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 496
Publication Date: November 25, 2008
Publisher: Pocket Star
Sales Rank: 2750
Studio: Pocket Star
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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 Hunter's most intense and exotic thriller to date.
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. Suddenly Bob is at the center of a series of terrible crimes he barely understands but vows to avenge. 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.
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.
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. If Swagger hopes to stop them, he must be willing not only to die but also to kill.
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Rating:  - Not Point of Impact
I think many people (like me) will buy this book thinking it is a continuation of a Bob Lee Swagger novel like Point of Impact. You will really be dissappointed unless you are studying Japanese swords or Japaneese terminology or culture. It takes way too long to get to the action. Sorry!
Rating: - The Sword might be sharp, but this novel is the dullest
After reading this novel I can only surmise that the author was paid according to the number of words written. He managed to stretch a mediocre yarn to "yawn" lengths. We are even given page after page of the Japanese version of "The Karate KId" (remember that one?). Then there is the endless gushing about the behavior of men of honor, bravery, duty, ad nauseum. At times such filler makes one forget just where the storyline is headed.
Of course what REALLY annoys me is that I just kept on ... Read More
Rating:  - A worthy sequel
I enjoyed this latest Swagger novel. It was fun and credible, but not the sort of book that you would like to red again and again. Still, it was worth buying. No regrets.
Rating:  - I Hate to Give This Book 2 Stars
I am a big fan of Stephen Hunter and his Bob Lee Swagger series. I would give most of them 5 stars. I saw Shooter on TV last night and remembered how much I enjoyed that book and how quickly I read it.
This book took me over a month to finish. The premise is that Bob Lee (after a week of acquaintance) got so close to a Japanese family, that he sought revenge after they were all killed. I don't see Bob Lee that way. I see him as a tough guy who lets few people in but when he does ... Read More
Rating: - An entertaining book by Stephen Hunter
February 1945. Iwo Jima island, Japan. Captain Hideki Yano was a captain of the 145th Regiment, Kuribayashi's 109th division, Japanese Imperial Army, defending a bunker on Suribachi's northwest slope. He was ready to die for the Emperor and for his country. Earl Swagger was a first sergeant, attached to Able Company, 28th Regiment, United States Marine Corps. It was the company's turn to lead an assault on Yano's well-designed and well-defended position. Able company was lead by captain Culpepper, ... Read More
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