Tuesday, July 29, 2008

overdrive

I learned how to download this book...listened to it....saw my check out and expiration date and learned that it will be deleted in fourteen days....saw that this book cannot be burned to a cd but I can download to a mp3 player.
The 47th Samurai
Swagger Series, Book 8
Edition: Unabridged
Series: Swagger
by Stephen Hunter
Buck Schirner


Synopsis
Bob Lee Swagger and Philip Yano are bound together by a single moment at Iwo Jima, 1945, when their fathers, two brave fighters on opposite sides, met in the bloody and chaotic battle for the island. Only Earl Swagger survived.

More than sixty years later, Yano comes to America to honor the legacy of his heroic father by recovering the sword he used in the battle. His search has led him to Crazy Horse, Idaho, where Bob Lee, ex-marine and Vietnam veteran, has settled into a restless retirement and immediately pledges himself to Yano's quest.

Bob Lee finds the sword and delivers it to Yano in Tokyo. On inspection, they discover that it is not a standard WWII blade, but a legendary shin-shinto katana, an artifact of the nation. It is priceless but worth killing for. Suddenly Bob is at the center of a series of terrible crimes he barely understands but vows to avenge. And to do so, he throws himself into the world of the samurai, Tokyo's dark, criminal yakuza underworld, a...

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