Shibumi

By (author): "Joe Barrett, Trevanian"
Publish Date: 1979
Shibumi
ISBN0786134836
ISBN139780786134830
AsinShibumi
CharactersNicholai Hel
Original titleShibumi
SeriesNicholai Hel #1
A westerner raised in Japan, he survived the destruction of Hiroshima to emerge as the world's most artful lover and its most accomplished assassin. His greatest desire is to attain a state of effortless perfection . . . shibumi. But he is about to face his most sinister and corrupt enemy -- a supermonolith of espionage and monopoly bent on destroyinghim. . . .From the Paperback edition.