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An edition of Shibumi (1979)

Shibumi

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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.

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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Language
English
Pages
440

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Subjects

Assassins, Fiction, Fugitives from justice, International business enterprises, Japan, fiction, Fiction, espionage, Fiction, thrillers, general, Fiction, thrillers, espionage

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Cover of: Shibumi
Shibumi: a novel
2005, Three Rivers Press
in English - 1st Three Rivers Press ed.
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Shibumi
May 12, 1980, Ballantine Books
Mass Market Paperback in English
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Shibumi
1979, Crown Publishers
in English
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Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages
440

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OL10683303M
ISBN 10
0345285859
ISBN 13
9780345285850
LCCN
78020950
OCLC/WorldCat
6475320
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169727
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1337365

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