Six Gun Samurai by Patrick Lee (Mark Roberts)
Six Gun Samurai (1981) by Patrick Lee (Mark Roberts) As was the case with many men’s adventure series, Six Gun Samurai was actually authored by 3 different writers all working under the house name of Patrick Lee; this first book’s copyright is attributed to Mark Roberts, who also wrote the odd-numbered books in The Penetrator series. Despite the fact that I have always had a strong affinity for martial arts-related adventure fiction, I did not enjoy this book and had to repeatedly force myself to keep slogging through to finish it. The first book in this short-lived 8-book series introduces us to Tommy Fletcher, son of American missionaries to Japan in the mid-1800s. After a massacre leaves him orphaned, Fletcher is taken in by a samurai and trained in the art of Bushido, learning not only karate, but many different weapons forms, including, of course...