THE SAMURAI STRATEGY

”A financial thriller right out of the headlines.”  Adam Smith

A high-finance, high-tech thriller that correctly predicted the 1987 stockmarket crash. It was the first fictional treatment of a major internationalconcern of the Eighties. Set in locales as diverse as Wall Street and theoffices of Japan's powerful Trade Ministry, THE SAMURAI STRATEGY describes ascenario of murder, worldwide currency manipulation, a revival of Japan'ssmoldering nationalism, and is set against a background of a new high-techcomputer milieu. Matthew Walton, a freelance corporate 'takeover' lawyer ishired by a mysterious Japanese industrialist to purchase a New York officebuilding and begin a massive 'hedging' in the financial markets. Two weeks later,off an island in the Inland Sea, divers working for the industrialist'sorganization, recover the original Imperial Sword, given to Japan's firstEmperor by the Sun Goddess, Japan's 'Excalibur', and lost in a sea battle in1185. 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 Americaneconomy.

As the story rushes to its stunning conclusion, Matt Walton goes to Japan anddetermines that the 'Imperial Sword' is, in fact an unusual antique he onceowned himself.

BOOKS BY THOMAS HOOVER

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Zen Culture

The ZenExperience

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The Moghul

Caribbee

Wall StreetSamurai (The Samurai Strategy)

ProjectDaedalus

ProjectCyclops

Life Blood

Syndrome

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