Quickly moving, multiple story lines that intersect. Dime novel mixed with a samurai movie
Fast paced, pulp fiction.
Japan is in the later part of the feudal era and America is in the decline of the gold rush period. Unbeknownst to Daimyo Nakabiashi, his entire feudal estate was traded away by a high ranking samurai retainer for the deed to a gold mine in America.
When the Shogun and his council hear of this news, Daimyo Nakabiashi is ordered to go to America to sell the mine. At this time in history, no one from Japan has ever been to America before. To add to the problem, Nakabiashi and his samurai only speak Japanese.
The scheming Shogun's solution is to send a multilingual geisha to accompany Nakabiashi and his five samurai retainers across the globe..
Will their delicate geisha interpreter be a liability or an asset?
The "Six Samurai of the West" is volume one in a three part series.
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