After reading the words of his late father's journal and his mother's suicide letter, Takeshiro (the mourning prince of a family-owned international conglomerate) quickly returns to Japan from his Russian exile. Determined to claim his rightful place as head of his father's dynasty and avenge his parents' honor, Takeshiro finds himself starting an underground guerrilla war between himself and the man responsible for his father's murder, painting the streets of Tokyo with crimson revenge. Old brotherhoods tear asunder by the wrath of brutal vendettas, while police are hot on his trail, and what remains of his love and family could be destroyed forever.
7-time award winning United States Navy editorial writer, featured on NewBuddhist.com for his poem “Gateway”, and the author of Fighting for Hangambiiki (having sold e-books of his autobiography in Asia, Africa, Europe, and America), considered by his college professors to be a “language genius” returns to the world of literature with his own signature rewrite of a legendary Shakespearean tragedy; Mike Norton, known for his talent for meshing genres and linguistics, brilliantly fuses Shakespeare's Hamlet with Sun Tzu's The Art of War in what he Takeshiro's Story.
Mike Norton is a bestselling independent author and veteran of the United States military who is a 7-time winner of the USS Dwight Eisenhower award for essays of world peace and respect, as well as the CEO of StrataGem Internet Marketing.
As a self-educated vagabond, he gains inspiration from a myriad of experiences wrought from the adventures of his nomadic lifestyle; he prolifically writes and journals where ever he goes in the world, from one country to the next.