Introduction: Ghosts of the shadow warriors - Origins - How to be a shadow warrior/1: Mind and spirit - Anti-ninja: The samurai - How to be a shadow warrior/2: Deception - and charm - A world of violence and undercover ops - How to be a shadow warrior/3: Magic - Building the ninja heartland - The rise of the conqueror - The calm before the storm - The end of the old ninjas - Nobunaga's end, Ieyasu's rise - The final battles - Shadows in retreat - The Nakano spy school - To Japan, with love - The last of the ninjas. Maybe you learned a little about ninjas in my review of historian John Mans new book, Ninja: 1,000 Years of the Shadow Warrior. Ninja, one thousand years of the shadow warrior. Full Bibliographic Record Publication information: