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The first of the interlinked plotlines is set in Russia during the Russo-Japanese War in 1905. Fandorin is charged with protecting the Trans-Siberian Railway from Japanese sabotage in a pacy adventure filled with double agents and ticking bombs. Then we travel back to the Japan of the late 1870s. This is the story of Fandorin's arrival and life in Yokohama, his first meeting with Masa and the martial arts education that came in so handy later. He investigates the death of a Russian ship-captain, fights for a woman, exposes double-agents in the Japanese police, fights against, and then with the ninjas, and becomes embroiled in a shocking finale that interweaves the two stories and ties up the series as a whole.
The best in a wonderful series. This novel is at once a comic book story of heroes and ninjas, a mystery, a treatise on history, culture, poetry and philosophy and ultimately a beautiful and unexpected love story. And a little fun with the author's pen name and its meaning in Japanese. All of this and truly fun to read, what's better than that. I dont know why this series is so hard to find in English but its well worth the effort and expense and while this is my favorite, I highly recommend them all (as well as the Sister Pelagia series)!
