Marcia L. (Marcia) reviewed on 4/4/2006 + 378 more book reviews

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Born in the ravages of World War 1 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 worlds'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 deterination to attain a rare kind of personal excellence, a state of effortless perfection---shibumi. Now living in a isolated mountain fortress with his magnificent Eurasian mistress. Hel faces his most sinister enemy--a supermonolith of espionage and monopoly. The battle lines are drawn: ruthless power and corruption on one side and on the other SHIBUMI

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