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Second Skin

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SHADOW WARRIOR. The ancient Japanese art of death is practiced by a select few. Of those young men who are chosen to train in the way of the shadow warrior, most will fail. Those who pass these trials, the Ninja, become the silent assassins, lonely guardians, and unseen watchers of legend. But rarer still are those masters of the shadow craft, the Shiro – those whose fearsome abilities are matched only by their rigid code of honour. Men like Nicholas Linnear...
SECOND SKIN. Two warriors bound by blood, divided by honour... As a youth, Nicholas Linnear chose the path of the Ninja, placing tradition and honour above all. Many of his blood-brothers fell by the wayside – death has claimed them, as it claims all men. But one of his brothers abandoned this path to pursue a life of greed and corruption. Trained in the way of the shadow warrior, but lacking the code that guides the true Ninja. And this man has never forgotten Linnear...
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 29, 1995
      Sex, violence and violent sex, plus lots of hokey Eastern mysticism--in other words, typical Lustbader fare--dominate the action in this sixth Nicholas Linnear novel, which brings to a close events begun in The Kaisho and continued in Floating City. Nicholas, half-British and half-Japanese, heads a computer firm on the verge of a mega-breakthrough that here is threatened by: a crazed Nietzsche-spouting American gangster who is Nicholas's doppelganger; the gangster's equally crazed, California-based brother, who's trying to take over the Eastern U.S. Mafia family run by a middle-aged suburban matron; an unholy mix of Japanese tycoons, pols and Yakuza; and a creepy, untrustworthy aide to Nicholas's ailing mentor. And then there's the order of nuns who fight evil in myriad ways, up to and including using their bodies in distinctly un-nunlike fashion. Fortunately, Nicholas has ``Tau-tau, the secret knowledge of ancient psycho-necromancers,'' useful in a pinch for moving guided missiles or supercharged motorcycles but prone to side effects that cause depressing blackouts without moving the plot at all. As usual, Lustbader's prose can be as corny as what it describes (``It was a daring and dangerous plan, but it was their only chance to bring Bad Clams down. Or it was going to get all of them dead''), but his fans and armchair ninjas won't be disappointed with this energetic entry in the series. Major ad/promo; British, translation, first serial, movie and TV rights: Henry Morrison.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      March 4, 1996
      The sixth novel in Lustbader's Nicholas Linnear series, in which technology and big business become battlegrounds for Japanese and American mafias.

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