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Satori
Satori
Book Category:
Fiction > General
Author:
Don Winslow
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN 13:
9781455501700
Price:
USD 7.99
Publication Year:
2011

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Hachette UK & US.

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Satori, by Don Winslow, is a prequel to the best-selling thriller, Shibumi, by Trevanian. Trevanian introduced the world to Nicholai Hel, master of `the naked kill' or hoda korusu. Hel speaks six languages, is a master of the game `Go', and has a special proximity sense - the ability to detect when any person or thing is nearby. As Satori opens in 1951, the Korean war is in full swing and the Americans have had Nicholai in solitary confinement for three years for the honor killing of his beloved stepfather, General Kishikawa. General Kishikawa, sentenced to a public execution, loved and raised Nicholai, teaching him `Go'. Rather than let him die that way, Nicholai killed him himself. While in jail, Nicholai was brutally tortured, physically and pharmaceutically by a CIA agent named Diamond. Out of the blue, a CIA agent who is a colleague of Diamond's approaches Nicholai with an offer. The United States will give him $100,000 and a passport if he will kill Yuri Veroshenin, the Soviet Commissioner to Red China. The CIA's reason for wanting Veroshenin killed is to put a wedge between Beijing and China. Nicholai takes the offer but he has other agendas - he wants to get even with Diamond and he hates Veroshenin who once forced his mother into a lurid affair so that she could survive