The Toyotomi Blades

Download or read book The Toyotomi Blades written by Dale Furutani and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 1998-08-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ancient sword cuts to the heart of a baffling mystery. Unemployed computer operator and amateur sleuth Ken Tanaka is thrilled at the chance to visit his ancestors' homeland, especially when it's courtesy of a Tokyo talk show that wants to interview him about his role in solving a recent murder case. But Ken's fifteen minutes of fame could prove fatal-- if the Japanese Mafia has its way. Why has the Yakuza targeted him? The answer, Ken discovers, is tied to the murder of an organized-crime figure in Manhattan...to the bizarre, sex-related death of a student in Japan...and to his own purchase of an ancient samurai sword at a Los Angeles garage sale. Now Ken is on the trail of a 300-year-old mystery that could soon have him pushing up bamboo shoots.