ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1963
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

The Kingdom of Slender Swords
`Washington Square Press` 1963.
broširano izdanje, dobro očuvana
na engleskom jeziku, 420 str.

In a classic romance opening, Barbara Fairfax gets her first glimpse of Japan from the deck of an ocean liner. Japan is the land where here parents met, her father died, and where she hopes to escape from highly eligible suitor whom she doesn’t love.
As a house guest of the American ambassador’s daughter, Barbara has a front row seat to history in the making. She, however, is more interested in embassy staffer Duke Daunt than in political jockeying between superpowers.
Hallie Erminie Rives maintains a classic romance storyline for the remainder of The Kingdom of Slender Swords, but he embeds it within a thriller. Rives rounds out the novel with a bit of history, a chunk of local culture, and a sprinkle of religion.
Sounds like a recipe for literary hash, doesn’t it?
But Rives is no ordinary writer.
His plotting is superb, his characters believable, his descriptions breathtaking.
His predictions aren’t bad for 1910 either.
Rives anticipates Japan “will make some other nations get a move on” within the next half century. The novel’s bad guy, “the expert,” says it’s easier to dominate the the world by manipulating international financial markets than with weapons, though he has invented the ultimate weapon by harnessing atomic energy.