{"product_id":"the-shoguns-gold-curtis-piper-9798218588441","title":"The Shogun's Gold: Solving a Historical Mystery","description":"\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e The Shogun's Treasure *** A Deadly Search *** A Buried Secret\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the final days of the Shogunate, as civil war threatens to engulf Japan, the Shogun's Naval and Finance Minister takes a desperate action: he reportedly hides a massive cache of gold in the remote north of the main island to keep it from the rebels. Captured and beheaded, his secret vanishes, and historians dismiss it as a fanciful myth. But they are wrong. Very wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo turn the tide of war, a friend of the Shogun enlists Tomita Yuki, a young samurai, to travel to America and purchase 10,000 Spencer repeating rifles-the same weapons used by Union forces in the Civil War. At his side: Major Butler, a retired U.S. Army officer who was a Shogunate military advisor, and Mary, Butler's bold and determined niece. But a deadly betrayal threatens everything, and their mission spirals into disaster, and their story disappears-until more than a century and a half later.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn modern-day California, insurance fraud detective Parker West discovers Tomita Yuki's Japanese diary in his late parents' attic. He also finds a gleaming 1858 U.S. $20 gold coin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawn into a mystery spanning continents and over 150 years, Parker teams up with Japanese-American historian Jason Tanaka and his brilliant niece, Terry. Together, they follow Yuki's elusive clues-deadly clues.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe gold is real. The danger is present. And the past is anything but buried.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Curtis Piper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798218588441\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Curtis Piper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/14\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 370\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.09lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.77d","brand":"Curtis Piper","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48800842776831,"sku":"9798218588441","price":14.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-shoguns-gold-curtis-piper-9798218588441","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}