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Satori / Don Winslow.

by Winslow, Don, 1953-

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Grand Central Publishing Large Print, c2011.

Fugitives from justice -- Fiction

International business enterprises -- Fiction.

Assassins -- Fiction

Large print ed.

679 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.

"A novel based on Trevanian's Shibumi" [and can be considered to be a prequel to that novel]."

"It is the fall of 1951 and the Korean War is raging. Twenty-six-year-old Nicholai Hel has spent the last three years in solitary confinement at the hands of the Americans. Hel is a master of hodo korosu or "naked kill," and fluent in over six languages. Genius and mystic, he has honed extraordinary "proximity sense" -- an extra-awareness of the presence of danger -- and has the skills to be the world's most formidable assassin. The Americans need him. They offer Hel freedom in exchange for one small service: go to Beijing and kill the Soviet Union's Commissioner to China. It's almost certainly a suicide mission, but Hel accepts. Now he must survive violence, suspicion and betrayal while trying to achieve the ultimate goal of satori -- the possibility of true understanding and harmony with the world."--Publisher.

Suspense fiction.

Psychological thriller.

Trevanian. Shibumi.

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