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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
Crown Publishers
Language
English
Pages
374

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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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Shibumi: a novel
2005, Three Rivers Press
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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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New York
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.5/4
Library of Congress
PZ4.T8135 Sh 1979, PS3570.R44 Sh 1979

The Physical Object

Pagination
374 p. ;
Number of pages
374

Edition Identifiers

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OL4732292M
ISBN 10
0517532433
LCCN
78020950
OCLC/WorldCat
4495359
Library Thing
169727
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2183954

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OL1882140W

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