{"type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "title": "Cimarronin", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL19430A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL7307658A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL583603A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL3850134A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL8106143A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL9213977A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "covers": [11076970], "key": "/works/OL24469838W", "subjects": ["Samurai", "Comic books, strips", "Comics & graphic novels, general"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "A disgraced outcast samurai living in early seventeenth-century Manila, Kitazume is contemplating ritual suicide when a divine force (of a sort) intervenes: Luis, a rogue Jesuit priest and Kitazume\u2019s longtime friend. At Luis\u2019s insistence, the samurai agrees to help smuggle a Manchu princess to Mexico. But little does he know that he\u2019s really been dragged into an epic struggle for power.\r\n\r\nAs they become embroiled in the deadly politics of New Spain, Kitazume uses his lethal skills to save his friends\u2014and to find redemption. Meanwhile, Luis secretly works as a member of the legendary Shield-Brethren, whose mission is to see that neither China nor Spain controls the silver mines owned by Luis\u2019s very father.\r\n\r\nAs politics and greed collide, Kitazume must call upon his deadly skills once more. But he\u2019s not just fighting to save his friends\u2014he\u2019s fighting for the redemption he so desperately craves."}, "latest_revision": 5, "revision": 5, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2021-05-13T19:05:50.452813"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-02-16T07:03:49.450505"}}