Shibumi

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Nicholai Hel born in the ravages of World War I 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 its 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 Eurasian mistress—He'll faces his most sinister enemy—a supermonolith of espionage and monopoly. The battle lines are drawn. Ruthless power and corruption on one side and on the other …Shibumi.

Genres fictionthrillermysteryespionagemystery thrillerjapannovelshistorical fictionadventureroman

400 pages, Audio CD

First published January 1,1979

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Nicholai Hel

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Format: 400 pages, Audio CD
Published: October 1, 2005 by Blackstone Pub
ISBN: 9780786179787
ASIN: 0786179783
Language: English

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About the author

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Rodney William Whitaker was an 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. He published the nonfiction book The Language of Film under his own name.
Between 1972 and 1983, five of his novels sold more than a million copies each. He was described as "the only writer of airport paperbacks to be compared to Émile Zola, Ian Fleming, Edgar Allan Poe, and Geoffrey Chaucer." Whitaker adamantly avoided publicity for most of his life, his real name a closely held secret for many years. The 1980 reference book Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers listed his real name in its Trevanian entry.