NICHOLAI HEL....
Born in the ravages of WWI China to an aristocratic Russian mother and a mysterious German father, raised in the spiritual gardens of a Japanese Go master, he survives the destruction of Hiroshima to emerge as the world's most artful lover and it's most accomplished and highly paid assassin. Genius, mystic, master of language and culture, Hel's secret is his determination to attain a rare kind of personal excellence, a state of effortless perfection..... shibumi.
Now living in an isolated mountain fortress with his magnificent Eurasion mistress, Hel faces his most sinister enemy --- a super-monolith of espionage and monopoly. The battle lines are drawn, ruthless power and corruption on one side and on the other...... SHIBUMI
Maybe the best book I've ever read.
Book Details
Format
mass_market
ISBN-10
0345285859
ISBN-13
9780345285850
Publication Date
May 1980
Item Weight
0.53 pounds
Length
1.18 inch
Width
6.00 inch
Height
1.00 inch
First Sentence
The screen flashed 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3 ... then the projector was switched off, and lights came up in recessed sconces along the walls of the private viewing room.
American film scholar and writer who wrote several novels under the pen name Trevanian. Whitaker wrote in a wide variety of genres, achieved bestseller status, and published under several other names, as well, including Nicholas Seare, Beñat Le Cagot, and Edoard Moran.
