# The Samurai and the Prisoner

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- Authors: [Honobu Yonezawa](https://www.bookquiver.com/honobu-yonezawa)
- Publisher: yen_press
- ISBN: 978-19-7536-050-4
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2023-07-18
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

The winter of 1578, four years prior to the Honno–ji Incident. Araki Murashige has betrayed his ally Oda Nobunaga and holed himself up in Arioka Castle—but a string of unsettling incidents within the castle walls has him at his wit’s end. The desperate warlord’s only hope for solving these mysteries is imprisoned in the castle’s dungeon: a man named Kuroda Kanbei, one of Oda’s most gifted strategists. When all the conflict and intrigue come to a close, what will these two men have gained…and lost? Award–winning author Honobu Yonezawa’s English–language debut is a page–turning blend of historical and detective fiction.