Death in the Dojo -

Sue Leather

Cambridge University Press

1999

88 páginas

2h 56m

ISBN-13: 9780521656214

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. Reporter Kate Jensen investigates the death of a karate master in a 'dojo', a karate training room in London. Another death quickly follows and Kate finds herself drawn into the mystery. The trail takes her to Japan, back to London, and back in time to a crime committed over thirty years earlier.

Resenhas (1)

3.5 (Bom)

Page 18

That was perhaps the most attractive thing about martial arts training: how training in the arts of war - or budo as it is called in Japanese - could make you less, not more, agressive.

Page 60
Somebody, somewhere, did this crime and I am paying for it.

Page 82
'You're never going to bring your father back,' Dad said, not unkindly.
'No,' said Lovat, 'but I can make then listen. I want to get an official pardon. He deserves it. Can't you see that?'

Page 84
'She's going to prison for a hell of a long time,' he said with pleasure in his voice, 'Two murders and the attempted murder of the Home Secretary. Wow!!'
'Yes, well,' I said, in a tired voice, 'I personally hope she won't be in prison for long. After all, her father's already paid the price.'