TY - BOOK AU - Yonezawa,Honobu AU - Di Martino,Giuseppe TI - The samurai and the prisoner SN - 9781975360504 PY - 2023/// CY - New York PB - Yen On KW - Kuroda, Yoshitaka, KW - Itamijō (Itami-shi, Japan) KW - Fiction KW - Castles KW - Japan KW - Samurai KW - History KW - Azuchi-Momoyama period, 1568-1603 KW - Detective and mystery fiction KW - lcgft KW - Historical fiction KW - Samurai fiction N2 - "The winter of 1578, four years prior to the Honnnoji Incident. Araki Murashige has betrayed his ally Oda Nobunaga and holed himself up in Arioka Castle--but a string of strange incidents within the castle walls has him at his wits' end. The desperate warlord's only hope in solving these mysteries is imprisoned in the castle's dungeon: a man named Kuroda Kanbei, one of Oda's most gifted strategists. When all the conflict and intrigue reach their end, what will Murashige and Kuroda have up their sleeves? Award-winning author Honobu Yonezawa's latest novel is a page-turning blend of historical and detective fiction"-- ER -