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The first of the interlinked plotlines is set in Russia during the Russo-Japanese War in 1905. Fandorin is charged with protecting the Trans-Siberian Railway from Japanese sabotage in a pacy adventure filled with double agents and ticking bombs. Then we travel back to the Japan of the late 1870s. This is the story of Fandorin's arrival and life in Yokohama, his first meeting with Masa and the martial arts education that came in so handy later. He investigates the death of a Russian show more ship-captain, fights for a woman, exposes double-agents in the Japanese police, fights against, and then with the ninjas, and becomes embroiled in a shocking finale that interweaves the two stories and ties up the series as a whole. show lessTags
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An amazing book!!! One of his best.
Un très grand B. Akounine. Ce qu'il s'est passé pour Fandorine pendant ses années japonaises, comment Massa rentre au service du maitre, plein de clin d'oeil à la littérature russe et japonaise, des Haikus à la pelle, un superbe de Chiyo. Origine d'un pseudo au delà des apparences, et surtout un très beau tour de force littéraires, 800 pages remarquablement articulées, intelligentes. DU grand art.
Feb 9, 2014French
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- Canonical title
- The Diamond Chariot
- Original title
- Алмазная колесница
- Original publication date
- 2003
- People/Characters
- Erast Fandorin; Masa
- Important events
- Russo-Japanese War
- First words
- On the very first day when the appalling rout and destruction of the Russian fleet near the island of Tsushima was approaching its end and the first vague and alarming rumours of this bloody Japenese triumph were sweeping acr... (show all)oss Europe - on that very day, Staff Captain Vasili Alexandrovich Rybnikov, who lived on a small street with no name in the St Petersburg district of Peski, received the following telegram from Irkutsk: 'Dispatch sheets immediately watch over patient pay expenses.'
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)That phrase is this: YOU CAN LOVE.
- Disambiguation notice
- This is Part 1 of The Diamond Chariot, published as a separate book
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- Fiction and Literature, Mystery, Historical Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 891.735 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature East Indo-European and Celtic literatures Russian and East Slavic languages Russian fiction 1991–
- LCC
- PG3478 .K78 .A78 — Language and Literature Slavic languages and literatures. Baltic languages. Albanian language Slavic. Baltic. Albanian Russian literature Individual authors and works 1961-2000
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- ISBNs
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