# Shibumi

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- Authors: [Trevanian](https://www.bookquiver.com/trevanian)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2011-05-12

## Description

Forced out of retirement, a reluctant assassin must face his most dangerous enemy. Nicolai Hel is a westerner brought up in Japan and is the protégé of a Japanese Go master. Hel survived the destruction of Hiroshima to emerge as the world's most artful lover and its most accomplished assassin. Hel is a genius, a mystic, and a master of language and culture, and his secret is his determination to attain a rare kind of personal excellence, a state of effortless perfection known only as shibumi. Now living in an isolated mountain fortress, Hel is unwillingly drawn back into the life he'd tried to leave behind when a beautiful young stranger arrives at his door, seeking help and refuge. It soon becomes clear that Hel is being tracked by a deadly force -- a sinister organisation known only as the Mother Company. The battle lines are drawn: ruthless power and corruption on one side, and on the other . . . shibumi.

## Editions

### Shibumi

- Publisher: headline
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-07-5538-590-4
- Published: 2011-05-12
- Language: en_GB

### Shibumi

- Publisher: headline
- ISBN: 978-07-5537-023-8
- Published: 2011-05-12
- Language: en_GB

### Shibumi

- Publisher: crown
- ISBN: 978-14-0009-803-3
- Pages: 480
- Published: 2005-05-10
- Language: en_US

## This book in other languages

- [Shibumi](https://www.bookquiver.com/trevanian/it/shibumi) (it_IT)
- [Shibumi](https://www.bookquiver.com/rodney-william-whitaker/pl/shibumi) (pl_PL)