Shibumi

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Trevanian
SHIBUMI
In Nicholai Hel, Trevanian has created the perfect assassin for our times: a man wrought out of the crucible of war and devastation. Brought up in China by his aristocratic Russian mother, he found strength and education in the arms of his Japanese warrior foster father, who instilled in him the determination to attain shibumi. Shibumi is a word like charisma. Literally, shibumi means the essence of beauty. But by extension it has come to mean a rare kind of personal excellence.
Nicholai Hel is taught by the Japanese devastation of China and the American devastation of Japan during World War II an ineradicable loathing for political killing. But it is killing to which he turns, using his nearly superhuman mental and physical prowess to' destroy political terrorists—from the PLO to the CIA.
But there is one organization of terror and control Hel has not the power to defeat: The Mother Company. The Mother Company has become the supermonolith of espionage and... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Trevanian
SHIBUMI
In Nicholai Hel, Trevanian has created the perfect assassin for our times: a man wrought out of the crucible of war and devastation. Brought up in China by his aristocratic Russian mother, he found strength and education in the arms of his Japanese warrior foster father, who instilled in him the determination to attain shibumi. Shibumi is a word like charisma. Literally, shibumi means the essence of beauty. But by extension it has come to mean a rare kind of personal excellence.
Nicholai Hel is taught by the Japanese devastation of China and the American devastation of Japan during World War II an ineradicable loathing for political killing. But it is killing to which he turns, using his nearly superhuman mental and physical prowess to' destroy political terrorists—from the PLO to the CIA.
But there is one organization of terror and control Hel has not the power to defeat: The Mother Company. The Mother Company has become the supermonolith of espionage and economic monopoly. Hel takes them on, and in a wild series of adventures, ranging through the subterranean caves of the Basque country to the elegant manor houses of Britain, he demonstrates why he is considered the world's most dangerous man.
In Shibumi, the characteristic Treva-nian ragout has never been better spiced. Shibumi is by far the best of Trevanian and it is sure to be a best seller.
The symbol on the front of the jacket is a Basque cross.
Jacket design by Paul Bacon Vissza