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Summary: Good for Summer
Comment: An interesting book to read, quick, and good for the beach. I gave this book three stars because it didn't really leave a lasting impression for me -- but please note that I am not a fan of war-period novels. I suppose it deserves more stars because I actually finished it!From the cover:
The Katana is the ritual sword of the Samurai warrior--a weapon at once beautiful and fearsome, which in the tradition of Japan serves not only to fight one's enemies but to end one's own life with honor.
In the explosive, terrifying and disturbingly erotic novel by the author of THE SAMURAI, the warrior is an English intelligence officer who carries out a high-level penetration of the Japanese High Command--a coup that gives the British and the Americans access to the most important Japanese secrets. But as soon as the story unfolds, we begin to realize that something is wrong, that the bizarre and complicated plot is not a tale of World War II heroism, but perhaps one of treason and betrayal, and that what we are reading about is, in fact, a successful Japanese thrust at the very heart of Allied intelligence, one that involves nothing less than the assassination of a major Allied war leader--and that will only be accomplished and illuminated decades after the war, in the death of a warrior.
(....)This is no ordinary war novel or espionage story--it is a work of art that explores the meaning of courage and patriotism, and the deep obsessive link between fear and sexuality, while at the same time taking us deep into the mind and soul of Japan.
