Between Worlds

<p><strong>They called him the Black Demon. They had no idea what he was carrying.</strong></p><p>In 1579 a man who should not exist arrives in Japan. Torn from Africa as a child sold through the Portuguese slave trade he has survived by hiding his true nature behind a mask of obedience. But concealed against his chest he carries something far more dangerous than his extraordinary strength: a wooden elephant carved by his father-and the secrets hidden inside it.</p><p>When the warlord Oda Nobunaga elevates him to samurai Yasuke becomes the most visible man in Japan and the most vulnerable. The Demon King's enemies see him as an abomination. His allies see him as a useful monster. And General Akechi Mitsuhide-patient calculating and nursing a grudge that spans generations-sees him as a threat that must be eliminated.</p><p>Then Nobunaga is betrayed his temple burned and Yasuke finds himself hunted across a nation at war. The sword at his hip belonged to a hero whose true story was buried by the very man now hunting him. The intelligence his father gathered-a map of the slave trade's corruption its collaborators its weaknesses-could reshape empires or get him killed.</p><p>With assassins behind him and an ocean ahead Yasuke must decide what kind of man he will become: the demon they made him or something they never imagined.</p><p><em>You are not what they made you. You are what you choose to become.</em></p><p><strong>BETWEEN WORLDS</strong> is a pulse-pounding historical thriller about identity survival and the secrets we carry across oceans-from the acclaimed author Robert Walker.</p>