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The Samurai Inheritance by James Douglas

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The Samurai Inheritance

Author
James Douglas
Narrator
John Telfer
Publisher
Isis
Publish Date
1 September 2025
Run Time
12 hours 17 minutes
Format
Audiobook
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April 1943 - A Mitsubishi transport plane, carrying Admiral Isoruku Yamamoto, architect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, plunges from the sky over the island of Bougainville. In a document case chained to his wrist is the greatest secret of the Second World War. . . December 2011 - Art recovery expert Jamie Saintclair is offered a lucrative commission: he has been tasked to find the preserved head of a Solomon Island warrior, missing from a German museum since 1945? The search takes Jamie from Berlin to Tokyo and with every turn the significance of the Bougainville skull becomes ever greater. Soon he realises he's become involved in something much more important than finding a lost piece of history…

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Author
James Douglas
Narrator
John Telfer
Duration
12 hours 17 minutes
Release Date
1 September 2025
ISBN
9781399188760
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
Isis

Synopsis

April 1943 - A Mitsubishi transport plane, carrying Admiral Isoruku Yamamoto, architect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, plunges from the sky over the island of Bougainville. In a document case chained to his wrist is the greatest secret of the Second World War. . . December 2011 - Art recovery expert Jamie Saintclair is offered a lucrative commission: he has been tasked to find the preserved head of a Solomon Island warrior, missing from a German museum since 1945? The search takes Jamie from Berlin to Tokyo and with every turn the significance of the Bougainville skull becomes ever greater. Soon he realises he's become involved in something much more important than finding a lost piece of history…

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