Arigato, Obrigado... (The Beginning)

Dear Readers,

Today , I received a novel, written by my friend, Steve Asikin. It’s a world historic novel from year 1550. What made me interested about this novel was this novel based on his research of 2 years traveling around the world, and studied the history of each country he visited. No wonder when I first looked at a glance of this novel, it contains very detail of the country's condition at that time, but on the other side, Steve described it with very simple language.

I haven’t read all chapter of this book, but based on my experiences on reading historic novel and epic journey, It would be better to read this novel, one chapter at a time, then discuss each chapter with other readers and off course, the writer him self. What do you think ?

Below is the preview of this novel. I will update my blog to share with you about this fascinating novel . Stay tune.

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On Sep 1647, old Dean Robert Lyme got shot at Harvard University. The two snipers run away, protected by shuriken thrown by japanese nijas. His medic, a Moslem and ex Spanish navy, DR. De Sot0, also teaches Islamic Theology. They speak in Japanese, Arabic, and Hebrew. He calls Dr. Lyme, as Portuguese Catholic pastor De Lyma.

Investigation of assassin's helpers, disturbed by heavy armed Spanish and Portuguese's armada at Charles river, Boston. Massachusetts' police then ask London's white hall of admiralty and British Naval intelligence to handle the sea war's problems. By the instruction of British's first sea lord, the Boston police get British's secret service's reports.

While the regular secret packages accepted, the assassin's helper, 1st interrogator, additional witness, 2nd interrogator and chief of the police get killed by consecutively: Javanese cundrik, Swiss' explosives, mail doves' powder poison, Japanese poisoned shuriken, and log range sniper's shot.