_"A financial thriller right out of the headlines." _Adam Smith
A high-finance, high-tech thriller that correctly predicted the 1987
stock market crash. It was the first fictional treatment of a major
international concern of the Eighties. Set in locales as diverse as
Wall Street and the offices of Japan's powerful Trade Ministry, THE
SAMURAI STRATEGY describes a scenario of murder, worldwide currency
manipulation, a revival of Japan's smoldering nationalism, and is set
against a background of a new high-tech computer milieu. Matthew
Walton, a freelance corporate 'takeover' lawyer is hired by a
mysterious Japanese industrialist to purchase a New York office
building and begin a massive 'hedging' in the financial markets. Two
weeks later, off an island in the Inland Sea, divers working for the
industrialist's organization, recover the original Imperial Sword,
given to Japan's first Emperor by the Sun Goddess, Japan's 'Excalibur',
and lost in a sea battle in 1185. 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 American economy.
As the story rushes to its stunning conclusion, Matt Walton goes to
Japan and determines that the 'Imperial Sword' is, in fact an unusual
antique he once owned himself.