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"Lustbader has honed the brooding, goose-bumply sensation of sudden, violent death likely to burst out of the darkness at any moment into a unique art form."LOS ANGELES TIMESNicholas Linnear is helpless as he watches his love and his life careen out of control. He has discovered that he is shiro nive, a life of honor and truth amidst greed and corruption. And through it all, stalks a perverse madman through the seamy streets and bureaucratic mazes of Tokyo, destroying anyone who stands in his way, with deadly precision and otherworldly cunning. And the one man who can stop him, Nichaolas Linnear, is shiro ninja. "From the Paperback edition."
Author Notes
Eric Van Lustbader was born in Greenwich Village, New York City in 1946. He received a bachelor's degree in sociology from Columbia College in 1968. While still in college, he began work in the entertainment industry by creating his own music production company that included work with such bands as Cheap Trick, Mountain, and Blue Oyster Cult. He is a writer of both thriller and fantasy novels. He has written several series including The Pearl Saga Series, The Sunset Warrior Cycle, The China Maroc Series and The Nicholas Linnear/Ninja Cycle Series. He is also the co-author of the Jason Bourne series, starting with book 4, with Robert Ludlum.
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Reviews (2)
Publisher's Weekly Review
Nicholas Linnear, hero of The Ninja and The Miko , is back in another epic melodrama set in present-day Japan, this time concerning primal Japanese tanjian sorcery, troubled family histories, sex crimes, magic jewels, marital problems, the opium trade, brain tumors, an apocalyptic computer virus and sadistic blood murder; and featuring high-powered Washington politicians, a female detective for the Tokyo police, Red operatives, the Japanese mafia, and a brother-sister tag team of evil incarnate. Improbable as it may sound, the story (which begins with the endless complications bequeathed upon it by its two equally elaborate predecessors) is compelling, highly charged with action, adventure, and Lustbader's particularly anguished brand of sexual realism. The densely plotted story leads through the labyrinthine mysteries of the Orient, with sexual and spiritual mysteries unfolding enticingly (if predictably) at every turn. A distinctly good time for the unabashed thriller-reader, particularly those with a taste for the mystical, exotic and sexually kinky. (Feb.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus Review
Third but not last entry in Van Lustbader's series about the life of half-Caucasian/half-Oriental Nicholas Linnear, begun with The Ninja (1980) and continued in The Miko (1984). Here is Van Lustbader's best batch of ninja adventures, though still a whirlwind of demonic banality--a kind of Sax Rohmer Fu Manchu clone raised to supernatural battlefields. In the last installment, Nick defeated his insane half-cousin Saigo and his seductive mistress Akiko, killing them both. Now his own three-year-old daughter Itami is dead as Nick undergoes traumatic surgery for a brain tumor. Deeply depressed, Nick alienates himself from his wife Justine, loses his way on The Moonlit Path, is zapped of his ninja warrior powers by an invading spirit, and becomes a shiro ninja or white ninja. Meanwhile, his American/Japanese computer company's fantastic new chip, Sphynx T-PRAM, has been invaded by the MANTIS virus, much like Nick's spiritual virus, and is in danger of being stolen by the Japanese government's top-secret agency, Nami, and has also become the center of a political fracas in Washington, D.C. Lead villain among many is Senjin, a psychopathic (the word is too mild) young chief commander of Tokyo's homicide bureau, who uses his position to cover up his vile rape murders of beautiful young Japanese dancers (he strips their skin off); who is obsessed by the Demon Woman (in actuality his superbly beautiful twin sister Shisei, whose back he has tattooed with the great spider of the Demon Woman); and who is behind Nick's spiritual depression. In the novel's main action, Nick must recover his lost powers. He uses the estranged Justine to entrap Senjin, and meanwhile must uncover the spirit-truth behind his own family fortune: Was it too based on vile deeds? The story ends with MANTIS only temporarily delayed in its viral march through Sphynx T-PRAM and having returned in full-blown serpentine perfection. Van Lustbader offers his surreal spiritual blood-bath with strong Japanese hues and odors and a typhoon of storytelling--all of which should stir his fans and lift this latest adventure high up the charts. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.