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FREE THE 47TH SAMURAI PDF Stephen Hunter | 461 pages | 25 Nov 2008 | SIMON & SCHUSTER | 9780743458009 | English | New York, NY, United States The 47th Samurai (Bob Lee Swagger, #4) by Stephen Hunter Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. The 47th Samurai to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge The 47th Samurai. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — The 47th Samurai by Stephen Hunter. Bob Lee Swagger and Philip Yano are bound together by a single moment at Iwo Jima,when their fathers, two brave fighters on opposite sides, met in the bloody and chaotic ba In "The 47th Samurai," Bob Lee Swagger, the gritty hero of Stephen Hunter's bestselling novels "Point of Impact" and "Time to Hunt, " returns in Hunter's most intense and exotic thriller to The 47th Samurai. Bob Lee Swagger and Philip Yano are bound together by The 47th Samurai single moment at Iwo Jima,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 The 47th Samurai, 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 The 47th Samurai 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, and the unwritten rules of Japanese culture. Swagger's allies, hard-as-nails, American-born Susan Okada and the brave, cocaine-dealing tabloid journalist Nick Yamamoto, help him move through this strange, glittering, and ominous world from the shady bosses of the seamy Kabukicho district to officials in the highest The 47th Samurai of the Japanese government, but in the end, he is on his own and will succeed only if he can learn that to survive samurai, you must become samurai. As the plot races and the violence escalates, it becomes clear that a ruthless conspiracy is in place, and the only thing that can be taken for granted is that money, power, and sex can drive men of all nationalities to gruesome extremes. If Swagger hopes to stop them, he must be willing not only to die but also to kill. Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. More Details Original Title. Bob Lee Swagger 4. Bob Lee Swagger. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please The 47th Samurai up. To ask other readers questions about The 47th Samuraiplease sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. I'm sure that some will read this book and rate it lower than The 47th Samurai have I'll say this I like the Bob Lee Swagger character pretty well. However the Bob here isn't quite the Bob we've met before. There's not a huge difference The 47th Samurai anyone who's followed the series will probably see the differences. This however The 47th Samurai not the eye roll factor. I'll have to discuss that un I'm sure that some will read this book The 47th Samurai rate it lower than I have I'll have The 47th Samurai discuss that under a spoiler warning I don't want to "spoil" anything for anyone. Many if not most of you will The 47th Samurai catch the reference made in the title. Again details under a spoiler warning later. The 47th Samurai the book has some flaws There is The 47th Samurai section of slow plot building that leads to a slam bang finish. So, an action book that sets up a I'll give it four stars as it claims to be an action book and that's what it is. What is so eye rolling about this book? Please, let me explain. Are you aware of The 47th Samurai story referenced above of the 47 Samurai, or more properly the 47 Ronin? It's iconic in Japan like the Alamo here. The story is also well known in many places as there are endless movies, books, stories and TV shows based on it. In short and please don't be offended as I'm just giving a quick imprecise version here a young lord is tricked into doing something that offends the Shogun by an unscrupulous and cowardly court member. The young lord is ordered to commit seppuku. This left his retainers as masterless samurai. Of The 47th Samurai retainers 47 refused to allow their lord to go unavenged. For 2 years they built a reputation as shameful ronin, drunk debauched masterless warriors. Then they brought off an unexpected attack on the castle or The 47th Samurai of the one who'd brought about their lord's shame and caused his death. After this when the Shogun ordered them they to committed seppuku. Alright here Bob meets a Japanese man who's father knew Bob's father This man has come to Bob searching for his father's sword. Bob feeling an obligation sets out to help him. He finds that his father Earl Swagger had handed the sword off to his young captain. The story proceeds through tragic happenings to The 47th Samurai vendetta that leads Bob to the Yakuza See the really bad, nasty, evil dangerous Yakuza hit man uses a sword. The Sword Bob tracked down is of course a famous antique samurai around which blood and horror spin. Of course to do this, Bob the Nailer, Bob Lee Swagger sniper supreme at 60 years old learns to apparently master use the Katana, from a master of course the Wakizashi and the tanto In the end Bob beats just barely of course the samurai master. Not only this however Of course when you The 47th Samurai them it turns out that Bob Lee makes the The sword Bob had recovered had belonged to the original 47th Samurai. Now aside from the fact that this could never happen, it leads to a pretty good fight scene directly introducing Bob's duel with the hit man. View all 13 comments. Mar 21, Carol Storm rated it did not like it. Bob Lee Swagger becomes a Samurai. I mean, really? I thought he was a rifleman! So what's next? Bob Lee Swagger is a surfer. And he pals around with Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys, and together they break up a murderous hippie cult. I mean it! Audiobook - listened to 4 of The narrator was OK, but the story - it just went everywhere and nowhere for me. After a couple of hours of thinking "umm A couple of hours later I went back to the GR reviews and found that I had tilted way towards agreeing with the one and two star reviews, figured Bobby Lee wasn't going to get Audiobook - listened to 4 The 47th Samurai A couple of hours later I went back to the GR reviews and found that I had tilted way towards agreeing with the one and two star reviews, figured Bobby Lee wasn't going to get any better and kicked him to the DNF shelf. View all 4 comments. Jun 22, Nate rated it it was ok. All the more so, really, because Stephen Hunter has been one of my recent favorite thriller writers. The 47th Samurai - Wikipedia Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date. For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now. Javascript is not enabled in your browser. Enabling JavaScript in your browser will allow you to experience all the features of our site. Learn how to enable JavaScript on your browser. NOOK Book. Audio MP3 The 47th Samurai CD. Dust drifted from the ceiling. The burnt-egg stench of sulfur lingered everywhere. There had been so many names. Does this mean they're coming? The blockhouse was low and smelled of sulfur and shit because the men all had dysentery from the tainted water. It The 47th Samurai typical Imperial Army fortification, a low bunker of concrete, reinforced over many long months, with oak tree trunks from what had been but was no longer the island's only oak forest, the sand heaped over The 47th Samurai. It had three firing slits and behind each slit sat a Type 96 gun on a tripod, a gunner, and a couple of loaders. Each field of fire fanned away for hundreds of yards across an almost featureless landscape of black sand ridges and marginal vegetation. The blockhouse was divided into three chambers, like a nautilus shell, so that even if one or two were wiped out, the last gun could continue to fire until the very end. The 47th Samurai was festooned everywhere with the latest imperative from General Kuribayashi's headquarters, a document called "Courageous Battle Vows," which summed up everyone's responsibilities to The 47th Samurai Sphere. Above all else, we shall dedicate ourselves to the defense of this island.

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