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The New York Times-bestselling novel in which a martial artist's past returns to haunt him-in the shape of a ninja Raised in Japan by a British father and a Chinese mother, young Nicholas Linnear felt at home only in the dojo, where he gave himself over to mastering ninjutsu-the ancient art of the ninja. Over years of training, he ascended to the highest ranks imaginable until a confrontation over the very meaning of ninjutsuchanged his approach to martial arts forever, sending him on a journey that would take him across the globe. After years of success in the advertising business, Linnear quits his job abruptly when he feels himself yearning for the life he led in Japan. Searching for direction, he meets a striking beauty named Justine and is beginning to fall in love when something chilling draws him back into his past: the corpse of a coworker, murdered by a Japanese throwing star. There is a ninja loose in New York City, and as the body count rises, it becomes clear that people close to Linnear are being targeted. Only he has the skill to stop a twisted killer with a personal vendetta.… (meer)
This is the story of Nicholas Linnear, half-Caucasian, half-Oriental, a man caught between East and West, between the sexual passions of a woman he can't forget and the one he can't control and between a past he can't escape and a destiny he can't avoid. A sprawling erotic thriller that swings from postwar Japan to present-day New York in a relentless saga of violence and terror elaborately designed for the most savage vengeance of all...
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In darkness there is death.
It was the first thing they had taught him and he never forgot it. He could move unobserved in daylight, too; in other ways. But the night was his special friend.
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And once you become his friend, all his defences come down. Then can you choose the most fitting method for his demise.
The New York Times-bestselling novel in which a martial artist's past returns to haunt him-in the shape of a ninja Raised in Japan by a British father and a Chinese mother, young Nicholas Linnear felt at home only in the dojo, where he gave himself over to mastering ninjutsu-the ancient art of the ninja. Over years of training, he ascended to the highest ranks imaginable until a confrontation over the very meaning of ninjutsuchanged his approach to martial arts forever, sending him on a journey that would take him across the globe. After years of success in the advertising business, Linnear quits his job abruptly when he feels himself yearning for the life he led in Japan. Searching for direction, he meets a striking beauty named Justine and is beginning to fall in love when something chilling draws him back into his past: the corpse of a coworker, murdered by a Japanese throwing star. There is a ninja loose in New York City, and as the body count rises, it becomes clear that people close to Linnear are being targeted. Only he has the skill to stop a twisted killer with a personal vendetta.
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Nicholas Linnear, half-Oosters, half-Engels, ontmoet de dochter van een rijke, machtige industrieelen krijgt een intense liefdesrelatie met haar. Al gauw wordt hij geconfronteerd met een reeksmoorden in Ninja-stijl die hem herinneren aan zijn jeugd in Japan, aan zijn Japanse moeder en zijngrote liefde, Yukio, wier seksuele honger hij nauwelijks kon stillen. In New York ontmoet de lezer Terry Tanaka, eigenaar van een exclusieve vechtschool, en Ah Ma,hoerenmadam, eigenares van een uiterst vreemd bordeel. Maar het hoogtepunt van deze roman, in deze spannende bizarre mensenjacht, is de uiteindelijkeconfrontatie tussen de achtervolgde en de jager, van wie er minstens één een Ninja is...
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A sprawling erotic thriller that swings from postwar Japan to present-day New York in a relentless saga of violence and terror elaborately designed for the most savage vengeance of all...