Shibumi: A Novel

Synopsis

A classic spy novel from the bestselling author, trevanian, about a westerner raised in japan who becomes one of the world's most accomplished assassins. Nicholai hel is the world's most wanted man. Born in shanghai during the chaos of world war i, he is the son of an aristocratic russian mother and a mysterious german father and is the protégé of a japanese go master. Hel survived the destruction of hiroshima to emerge as the world's most artful lover and its most accomplished--and well-paid--assassin.