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Book Review of Shibumi

Shibumi
Shibumi
Author: Trevanian
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Book Type: Paperback
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NICHOLAS 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.