"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...