Beyond strange. There was nothing up there: no roads, nor even footpaths; no villages; no food; no water. Yet there they were, a little line of men, black against the sunrise.They came nine days after the big red ship had foundered, but Kaida knew immediately that they had come for the ship. Outl...
When he reached the rocky spur where Gyomin’s hut was perched, he found an underwater mouth ringed with seaweed and glowing fish. Swimming into the tunnel, he found its walls were smooth to his touch, and he wondered whether it had first been formed by lava or by human tools. He soon emerged into...
Then she brought Glorious Victory Unsought crashing down on his head, chopping him in half.It was the sixtieth time she’d done this. Her forearms and shoulders burned, but she had forty more to go.This was her second kenjutsu drill of the morning. For the first hundred strikes, she’d imagined Jok...
Never before had such a tiny nation defeated one so vast. Never in the modern era had an Asian power bested a European one. And never before had a victor been treated with such international disdain. It had been military intelligence that defeated the Russians—or so Keiji had been taught in comma...