{
  "type": "edition",
  "site": {
    "name": "The Book Quiver",
    "language": "en-US",
    "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com"
  },
  "formats": "Every page has two versions with the same data: JSON (the page address + .json) and markdown (the page address + .md). Append .json or .md to any `url` in this document.",
  "title": "Shibumi",
  "subtitle": null,
  "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/trevanian/shibumi/9780755385904",
  "publisher": "headline",
  "translators": [],
  "medium": "ebook",
  "duration_seconds": null,
  "narrators": [],
  "illustrators": [],
  "cover_artists": [],
  "isbn": "978-07-5538-590-4",
  "pages": null,
  "published": "2011-05-12",
  "language": "en_GB",
  "cover": "https://quivercdn.com/covers/headline/trevanian/shibumi_978-07-5538-590-4.jpg?v=2026-05-18%2019%3A05%3A23",
  "json": "https://www.bookquiver.com/trevanian/shibumi/9780755385904.json",
  "markdown": "https://www.bookquiver.com/trevanian/shibumi/9780755385904.md",
  "binding": "E-book",
  "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.",
  "book": {
    "title": "Shibumi",
    "slug": "shibumi",
    "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/trevanian/shibumi"
  },
  "authors": [
    {
      "name": "Trevanian",
      "slug": "trevanian",
      "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/trevanian"
    }
  ]
}