The Dragon Scroll

In an adventure filled with highway bandits, unscrupulous politicians, and renegade monks, The Dragon Scroll introduces readers to the lively world of eleventh-century Japan and an irrepressible hero--Sugawara Akitada. On his first official assignment, Akitada--an impoverished nobleman and earnest young government clerk in the Ministry of Justice--is sent from the capital city on a nearly impossible mission to the distant province of Kazusa to discover why tax convoys are disappearing. In the politically murky world of the Japanese court, he has been set up to fail. Against the odds, the ever-resourceful Akitada, his elderly servant Seimei, and his impudent bodyguard Tora are determined to fulfill their mission and discover the truth in a town of dangerous secrets.

Author: I. J. Parker
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 06/28/2005
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 7.74h x 5.16w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9780143035329

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/30/2005 pg. 43
Ingram Advance 07/01/2005 pg. 46
Booklist 08/01/2005 pg. 2002

About the Author
I. J. Parker, winner of the Shamus Award for "Akitada's First Case," a short story published in 1999, lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia. She writes regularly for Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.