Milligan and the Reluctant Shogun (Milligan Adventures) - Softcover

Collier, Simon Alexander

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1523337958 ISBN 13: 9781523337958

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

"Milligan and the Reluctant Shogun" is a humorous, historical novel set in the Japan of the 1860s, and the 2nd Milligan adventure. Rebel samurai are trying to restore imperial rule, while the Shogun's forces respond with the most ruthless of crackdowns. Japan is a bloodbath. Britain and France are backing different sides in the struggle as they each attempt to establish themselves as the leading foreign power. Robert Seamus Milligan, a British diplomat with a weakness for women and drink, believes he is about to settle down to a quiet life of married bliss in Yokohama. How wrong he is...

About this title

About the Author:

Simon Alexander Collier was born in 1970 in Oxford, England. On a whim and the recommendation of a friend, after university he went to Osaka to teach English, thus beginning a lifelong interest in and affection for things Japanese. He returned to the UK for further study, after which he became a civil servant. In 1999, he was sent by the British government as a diplomat to Japan. Although Simon has now left government service, he has lived in Tokyo almost continuously ever since. Simon is married with two children.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1523337958
• ISBN 13: 9781523337958
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 294