Shibumi, Trevanian
Shibumi, Trevanian
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Shibumi

Author: Trevanian

Narrator: Christopher Lane

Unabridged: 16 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/27/2005


Synopsis

Nicholai 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 worlds most artful lover and its most accomplishedand highly paid assassin. Genius, mystic, master of language and culture, Hels secret is his determination to attain a rare kind of personal excellence, a state of effortless perfection . . . Shibumi. Now living in an isolated mountain fortress with his magnificent Eurasian mistressHell faces his most sinister enemya supermonolith of espionage and monopoly. The battle lines are drawn. Ruthless power and corruption on one side and on the other Shibumi.

About Trevanian

Trevanian (Rodney Whitaker, 1931–2005) was the bestselling author of Shibumi, The Eiger Sanction, The Loo Sanction, The Main, The Summer of Katya, and Incident at Twenty-Mile. He was also an educator in communication and dramatic arts and wrote nonfiction books under his own name. His books have been translated into more than fourteen languages.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeffrey on September 02, 2018

The reading public back in 1979 picked this book up thinking they were reading a best selling thriller novel, little did they know they were going to be exposed to a Trevanian philosophy called SHIBUMI. “SHIBUMI has to do with great refinement underlying commonplace appearances. It is a statement......more

Goodreads review by Kemper on April 06, 2011

Nicholai Hel is such a stud duck bad-ass that even if James Bond, Indiana Jones, Jason Bourne and the Dos Equis’s Most Interesting Man in the World banded together to try and take him down, he’d just kill them all with a drinking straw while lecturing them on the evils of their materialism. Then he’......more

Goodreads review by mark on June 12, 2013

1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5! Senses Working Overtime! SEE the assassin in his youth! see him as a child in war-torn Shanghai, as a young Go-Master in Japan, as a dutiful son and as a tortured prisoner, as an expert caver in Basque Spain, as an equally expert Stage IV Lovemaker! see him enact the "Delight of th......more

Goodreads review by Manny on February 16, 2016

If you've ever wanted to know what it takes to become the world's hottest lover and most kick-ass ninja-style assassin, then Shibumi lets you in on the secret. First, you need to learn to play Go well; then you have to become fluent in Basque. Real Go players tell me I'm about second Dan strength, b......more

Goodreads review by Michael on February 01, 2020

I had vaguely heard of Shibumi by reputation, but never actually having had read it, I decided to take the dive. And quite the dive it was with spies and assassinations, sex, and vengeance. After a few hundred pages of backstory, it blisters through the plot at breakneck speed. The protagonist is th......more