A bold English adventuer. An invincible Japanese warlord. A beautiful woman torn between two ways of life, two ways of love. All brought together in a mighty saga of a time and place aflame with conflict, passion, ambition, lust and the struggle for power. Superbly crafted...grips the reader like a riptide...gets the juices flowing! -- Washington Star. Exciting, totally absorbing...be prepared for late nights, meals unlasting, buisness unattended... -- Philadelphia Inquirer. Adventure and action, the suspense of danger, shocking, touching human relationships...a climactic human story. -- Los Angeles Times.