The Apprentice Author:Lewis Libby The Apprentice takes place in a remote mountain inn in northernmost Japan, where a raging blizzard has brought together wayfarers who share only fear and suspicion of one another. It is the winter of 1903, the country is beset with smallpox and war is brewing with Russia. In the flickering shadows of the crowded room, the apprentice, charged wit... more »h running the inn during the owner's absence, finds himself strongly attracted to one of the performers lodged there. His involvement with the mysterious travelers plunges him headlong into murder, passion and heart-stopping chases through the snow.« less
Sensitive and descriptive, yet filled with action and emotion. I was one-third through with it before I realized the more public identity of the author. It was absolutely a page-turner.