A foreign ship grounds in the night at Kaneura, and a land-poor southern retainer named Aoyagi Masanobu spends a day in the dune grass watching what men will do for the two objects aboard her.
A foreigner fires a matchlock at a braced plank at forty paces, and every man on that beach puts his fingers in the crater afterward and does the same sums. By dark, men are dying on the sand for the second gun.
When a copied matchlock has to reach a workshop three provinces inland, the hand that carries it is his: the gun, its powder, its notes, and the smith who made its barrel. Almost nothing survives the road. Sea water ruins the powder. The lock shears mid-fight. And the enemy who wants the gun never once gives chase — he simply keeps arriving first.
The Southern Gun is the second Samurai Wars novel.
Genre: Thriller
A foreigner fires a matchlock at a braced plank at forty paces, and every man on that beach puts his fingers in the crater afterward and does the same sums. By dark, men are dying on the sand for the second gun.
When a copied matchlock has to reach a workshop three provinces inland, the hand that carries it is his: the gun, its powder, its notes, and the smith who made its barrel. Almost nothing survives the road. Sea water ruins the powder. The lock shears mid-fight. And the enemy who wants the gun never once gives chase — he simply keeps arriving first.
The Southern Gun is the second Samurai Wars novel.
Genre: Thriller
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