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"Milligan and the Samurai Rebels" is a humorous, historical novel set in the Japan of the 1860s. The Shogun has been forced by the threat of Western firepower to re-open Japan to the outside world, while samurai outraged at this decision are scheming to topple the Shogunate and re-establish Imperial rule. In parallel, Britain and France are struggling by every means except open warfare to establish themselves as the leading influence on the government of Japan and to secure the accompanying trading privileges. Into this maelstrom steps Robert Seamus Milligan, a young British diplomat with a...

"Milligan and the Reluctant Shogun" is a humorous, historical novel set in the Japan of the 1860s, and the 2nd Milligan adventure. Rebel samurai are trying to restore imperial rule, while the Shogun's forces respond with the most ruthless of crackdowns. Japan is a bloodbath. Britain and France are backing different sides in the struggle as they each attempt to establish themselves as the leading foreign power. Robert Seamus Milligan, a British diplomat with a weakness for women and drink, believes he is about to settle down to a quiet life of married bliss in Yokohama. How wrong he is...