The game is simple: kill or be killedAn all-out fight for survival between hundreds of elite Japanese warriors.Whoever eliminates their rivals and makes it to Tokyo alive, wins a fortune.For Shujiro, poor and desperate, it is a chance to save his sick wife. He will cross treacherous lands, face old enemies and meet new allies. If he hesitates, or breaks the rules, he dies.It is a battle for those he loves. A battle to the death.A battle to be the last samurai standing.



SHOGO IMAMURA was born in 1984 in Kyoto. He made his debut as an author in 2017 with The Fire-Eating Bird. Since then, he has published many works of historical fiction, winning the Eiji Yoshikawa Literature Prize for New Writers, the Futaro Yamada Prize, the Naoki Prize, and other awards.MATT TREYVAUD is a translator and writer based in the Shōnan area of Kanagawa Prefecture. His translation of Seishi Yokomizo's The Queen Bee Mystery is also available from Pushkin Vertigo.