The Way of the Traitor: A Samurai Mystery

Authors: Rowland, Laura Joh
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: FIC014000, FIC022000, FIC031010
ISBN: 9780307801487, Related ISBNs: 0307801489, 0609000802, 0679449000, 9780307801487, 9780609000809
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 384,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: In a novel with echoes of Noble House, The Alchemist, and Gorky Park, Japan's preeminent detective-Samurai, Sano Ichiro, returns to risk his honor and life. In 1690 Nagasaki, Sano must crack his most sensitive case yet as he sets about to discover who killed a Dutch trader whose body has washed up on the shore of a small island famed for its "barbarians."
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