Synopsis: ● "Toby Cane, a freed slave who, as a cabin boy on his master's ship, was the sole survivor when the vessel sank in a storm off the coast of Japan, was found and adopted by a band of samurai warriors. Now, as an accomplished samurai, he is being sent to America as an agent of his employer to oversee a commercial arrangement seeking new markets for the cattle raised in the territory. He arrives just after a freakish earthquake has unleashed monsters of unknown horror on this remote region on the fringes of the Dakota badlands. With cattle and people being killed by beasts unlike anything anyone has ever seen before, a cattle man and his friends are desperate, and that Toby can save them." ― paraphrased from this book's product page on Amazon.com as of 2022-09-09.