The Six Samurai of the West — Robert Reade

Japan is in the later part of the feudal era and America is in the decline of the gold rush period. Unbeknownst to Daimyo Nakabiashi, his entire feudal estate was traded away by a high ranking samurai retainer for the deed to a gold mine in America. When hearing this news, the Shogun orders him to go to America to sell the mine. To add to the problem, he and his samurai retainers only speak Japanese. The scheming Shogun's solution to this problem is to send a multilingual geisha to accompany Nakabiashi and his five samurai retainers to America. Will their delicate geisha interpreter be a liability, or the hero?This 60,000 word book, "The Six Samurai of the West" is volume one in a three part series.