Gunfire Samurai: The Mikasa Yamakazi Chronicles

By Sean Bela

An epic fantastic serial filled with dazzling twists and turns, friends and foe switching roles, hidden truths and lies, with pulse-pumping danger peppered throughout. Readers will quickly fall into a savage odyssey in the world of fast-paced fantasy, untested myths and tall tales that is Gunfire Samurai.

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(ACTUAL CONTENT PAGES: 180, READING TIME: ~3 hours).

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FYEO: FOR YOUR EYES ONLY
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AGENT NAME: Mikasa Yamakazi
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CLAN: Second of Virgo
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POSITIONS: Spy Hunter-Killer, Covert Double Agent, Counterintelligence Operative, Disinformation Officer, Imperial Bodyguard, Samurai 9th Class, Security Analyst, Interrogations Officer, Agent Recruiter, Assassin 1st Class
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KNOWN ALIASES: Sarkis, Mayageysha, Lion Heart, Fingers, Old Coonie, Baku Tannenbaum, Nobu the Crownless Prince, Gookan, Doukem, Son of Two Moons, Ultra, *Other aliases Redacted*
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AGENCY: O.C.I. at Palace Rose
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AGENT CODE NAME: Classified/Withheld
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ASSIGNED HANDLER(S): Lord Yamaguchi (Imperial Spymaster), Lord Yuma (Commander of the Imperial Army), Lord Hayato (Imperial Emissary)
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OPERATION: God's Wrath by Gunfire Ultra
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MISSIONS ASSIGNED: 3
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MISSION PRIORITY #1: Search for, locate, close in and assassinate 21 suspected rebel clan Lords of Lands responsible for releasing Death's Terrible Twin.
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MISSION PRIORITY #2: Find and destroy all known Saduats and anyone closely associated with them.
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MISSION PRIORITY #3: Infiltrate The Fellowship of the House of the True Religion and gain and report useful intelligence on Death's Terrible Twin.
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WEAPON OF CHOICE: Man-eater aka The Broken Sword of the Daudane.
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IMPERIAL PREROGATIVE (RESTRICTIONS): (a) Agent of the Crown shall be disavowed and labeled as a 'Rogue Samurai' should this mission become enemy knowledge, he's caught and interrogated, or is killed in action. (b) Agent shall not receive state burial should any of the above occur since end-life options have been provided. (c) Shame shall be passed down to three generations of his family upon mission's failure. (c) Agent of the Crown shall travel by night. (d) Agent of the Crown shall use different aliases for every village/province he enters. (e) Agent of the Crown must make targeted assassinations in a clandestine manner. (f) Agent of the Crown should accomplish his mission within one year of the date assigned.
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TO JOIN MIKASA ON THIS MISSION: Keep reading and have a safe journey! The fate of the empire is in your hands.
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FOR MORE INFORMATION, visit the author's website at seanbela.com

• Language: English
• Publisher: MJB Publications
• Release date: Apr 3, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386698784

Sean Bela

WWW.SEANBELA.NETAuthor of Doomsday is on Wednesday, Gunfire Samurai: The Mikasa Yamakazi Chronicles, The Nay Slayer, and the upcoming Agents of Fire: Origin series.SEAN BELA, pronounced Sedook-el-Beselaekis in Dexus (which, according to Sean, is a written psychotic anagram language), is a 370-year-old time-traveling Martian. He was hatched in 2599 out of a test-tube only six weeks before the arrival of his generation ship from Dexus Omega. He grew to adult size during the following six weeks and was recruited by the Alliance to liberate Mars from Earth during the first of six wars of Liberation between the two planets.After the wars of liberation ended, which went poorly for the Martians, he was forced to move to Earth to hide among humans but was quickly revealed to be an extraterrestrial. Sean was conscripted into the Marine Corps as a military counterspy - for the highly-demanded skill sets he picked up while serving as a double agent in the Martian Alliance's Navy.He soon became interested in creative writing to express the distresses he witnessed with humans and their Martian cousins in conflict. After receiving an accolade for a writing contest at his alma mater, the University of Connecticut; where he majored in Molecular and Cell Biology, Sean requested to be released from the military. Realizing his request would be denied, and having learned a bit about human history, Sean created a two-part time machine with the help of his three brilliant friends and they disappeared from the 26th century. He arrived in Roswell, New Mexico on July 1947 and has been traveling throughout the states since his release from the government detainment camp in 1979.When asked why he writes in the science-fiction, thriller, and fantasy genres he says "Because they are among the most awkward and thought-provoking genres and I just can't get enough of them... when I turn off my television or put a book down, I still want to live in those worlds I see on the screen or read in ink, for good or for bad. They give me a potential glimpse of my world of origin, Dexus Omega. A world I will never know."Sean's interests lie in the economic and political ramifications of scientific and technological advancements because where he lived on Mars, this was all that the locals discussed. "It had run amuck... we had psychometric weapons that were capable of tracking and destroying you based on what it picked up from your thoughts... we had to take desperate measures to survive. Some people had their memories wiped every time they went to sleep, reliving the next day as if yesterday never happened."His general focus is on the variant aspects of futuristic probabilities, and potential outcomes where technology begins to run out of the control of its maker; an allegory for the relationship between a creator and mankind; a concept which he says is new to him. "On my world, I learned, we never had a concept of a creator. We 'Dexusians' are taught that the universe had always existed, all on its own."His inspiration comes from the works of Frank Herbert, Ray Bradbury, and Isaac Asimov - who he claims were the travelers who built and accompanied him on his trip from the future. Although they have all passed, he says that they will remain dear to his heart for inspiring him to become a fiction writer. "I can never fill their shoes... they were great pillars of sci-fi fantasy... I only wish to walk in them someday."Vivid images also inspire Sean, who struggles with a form of bipolar disorder he picked up from his lengthy exposure to humans and human concepts. These images further fuel his curiosity and desire to express himself on paper. Sean Bela now lives in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, New York where he awaits the second time ship's arrival for his planned return trip to 2599. "My arrival here is a paradox in and of itself, so I must return eventually. I will miss this place dearly when that inevitable day comes."-Upcoming Sean Bela Novels:The Demolishers (Book III of The Swinger-Mercy Conspiracy)Gunfire Samurai (Episode II of the Mikasa Yamakazi Chronicles)Agents of Fire: Origin (Book I of The Omni Defense Agency)Novellas:A Requiem Annual (Dark fantasy)Blood of Arogoolo (Horror)A Demon and a Dream (Horror)Anthology Series:The Fermion Channel (Sean Bela's Sci-Fi Factory Volume I)

Reviews for Gunfire Samurai

[Ann Boylen · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

4.5 stars. Mikada is a Badass Samurai! Definitely check out this book if you are into samurai fiction. It was an entirely strange book to read. I don't know where to start,really. The book is by no means a perfect one but it was freaking entertaining. My only complaint is that I want it to be much longer. I didn't put it down after the second chapter. It was a quick read filled with action, intreague, and tons of just off the wall weirdness. There's a mystery element to it, whic I didn't get much into because like every character was outrageously popping out at me. Don't expect the author to go into lengthy detail, if that is the sort of book you are into. This story is very meat and potatoes...blew my sox off