The Samurai Strategy

Set in locales as diverse as Wall Street and the offices of Japan`s powerful Trade Ministry, THE SAMURAI STRATEGY describes a scenario of murder, world-wide currency manipulation, a revival of Japan`s smoldering nationalism, and is set against a background of a new high-tech computer milieu.Matthew Walton, a freelance corporate `takeover` lawyer is hired by a mysterious Japanese industrialist to purchase a New York office building and begin a massive `hedging` in the financial markets. Two weeks later, off an island in the Inland Sea, divers working for the industrialist`s organization recover the original Imperial Sword, given to Japan`s first Emperor by the Sun Goddess, Japan`s `Excalibur`, lost in a sea battle in 1185. He forms an `800-Year Fund` and billions of yen flow to his fingertips. He then dumps all the Treasuries Japan had acquired and devastates the American economy.