The 47Th Samurai
Bob Lee Swagger's past was bloody, as a Marine Corps sniper and later a self-appointed avenger. But it seems he's not finished with combat, when he receives a visit from Colonel Philip Yano, who has come to America to find a samurai sword that Bob's father took from Yano's dying father in the battle for Iwo Jima in 1945. Yano believes the sword to be of political significance to whomever can get hold of it. Bob agrees to help and delivers the sword to Yano in Tokyo, but then the Yano family are murdered, and the sword stolen. Dark forces are at work. Bob enters Tokyo's criminal underbelly - and the violent world of the samurai. Once more he is on a mission of vengeance...