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Black Wolf: A Samurai Tale
Black Wolf: A Samurai Tale
Black Wolf: A Samurai Tale
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Black Wolf: A Samurai Tale is an historical novel set amongst the chaos of Sengoku-era Japan, a period of warring states that marked the proto-nation’s emergence from ancient feudalism into the modern world. Informed by the samurai ethos of bushido and the venerable traditions of Shinto mythology, the action-oriented novel unravels the mystery of a great man’s death as it probes the passions that bind human beings together, the hidden obsessions that drive the beasts within us, and the elusive meanings that are revealed in the stories we alternately choose to hear or ignore.

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PublisherSean McCready
Release dateOct 4, 2012
ISBN9781301776993
Black Wolf: A Samurai Tale
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Sean McCready

Sean McCready is a freelance writer and editor. Born in Washington, D. C., he enjoyed a youth misspent in the hinterlands of the upper Midwest prior to graduating from the University of Michigan with a degree in English literature. Over the course of a year’s work at a publishing house in Detroit he contracted a chronic case of wanderlust and has since become an avid traveller. Supported by abiding interests in languages, foreign cultures, and exotic food, he has made his home variously on four continents. Black Wolf: A Samurai Tale is his first novel. He currently lives out of his backpack and can be found somewhere in Eurasia writing his second book.

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