When Indianapolis surgeon Dr. Douglas Bayliss inherits a set of antique
surgical knives, little does he realize that their blades have been crafted from the
fragments of a Muramasa katana. Muramasa . . . the name echoes through Japanese
legend like a malign whisper: the swordsmith whose blades were notorious for their
thirst for blood. The scalpels' first owner, Sir Reginald Bastable, is known to history
as Jack the Ripper, driven by...