The Way of the Traitor

Bundori

Author: Laura Joh Rowland

A volatile, corrupt city threatened by toreign invasion and ru by an iron-fisted government, Nagasaki is the last place Sano Ichiro wants to be, Unfortunately, the shogun’s Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People has been banished there by a wicked adversary in the shogun’s court.Surrounded by spies, Sano must tread carefully. When the body of a Dutch….Read More

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