"Totally absorbing...as gripping a tale of hatred and revenge as you will read...It is superb." NEWS RECORD This is the story of Nicholas Linnear, half-Caucasian, half-Oriental, a man caught between East and West, between the sexual passions of a woman he can't forget and the one he can't control and between a past he can't escape and a destiny he can't avoid. A sprawling erotic thriller that swings from postwar Japan to present-day New York in a relentless saga of violence and terror elaborately designed for the most savage vengeance of all...
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Deze serie volgt het leven van een man verscheurd tussen twee werelden, zoekend naar zijn plaats te midden van een wervelwind van passie, haat en wraak. Het verhaal strekt zich uit van het naoorlogse Japan tot het hedendaagse New York en smeedt een meeslepende saga vol geweld, erotiek en een onontkoombaar lot. De protagonist worstelt met een achtervolgend verleden en een onverbiddelijk roepende toekomst. Het is een aangrijpende thriller die de duistere kanten van de menselijke psyche en de uiteindelijke prijs van vergelding onderzoekt.






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The Miko
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She is a sorceress - indescribably beautiful, overpoweringly sensual - who possesses incomprehensible powers. She is also a murderess who plans to use her power to kill Nicholas Linnear, the hero of THE NINJA.This is only the beginning of this exotic thriller, where Lustbader weaves an utterly compelling tale of the CIA, the KGB, the technological world of modern Japan, and the mystical and dangerous realms of Ninja warriors....
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Lustbader returns to the phenomenon he originated with The Ninja. For years, Saigo's evil and the Mido's magic have failed to conquer Nicholas Linnear. Now he is about to be changed by the times, by love, and by destiny. He faces the one enemy he never expected: himself.
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From Eric Van Lustbader, the suspense mastermind behind the smash bestsellers featuring Robert Ludlum’s™ Jason Bourne, comes a blockbuster thriller of one man’s debt of honor— and his ultimate destiny. Years ago, Nicholas Linnear—the Ninja—made a promise to his father: If a man named Mikio Okami ever sought his help, he would respond without question, no matter the cost. Now the time has come to fulfill his pledge. Okami is the Kaisho— the boss of bosses of the Yakuza, the Japanese underworld—and in his Venice headquarters, he realizes that he has been marked for death. But the identity of the assassin and the inexorable compulsion that drives him are shrouded in mysticism and madness. Honor bound to protect Okami, Linnear is prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice: a descent into a chasm of knowledge so potent, of dangers so unfathomable, that even if he survives, he will emerge changed forever.
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Druhá kůže je poslední ve volné řadě novel o Nicholasu Linearovi - Ninja, Miko, Kaišó a Plovoucí Město. Na scénu znovu vstupuje i Mikio Okami - Kaišó, tedy bos bosů Jakuzy. Ústřední dějovou osu napínavého příběhu tvoří bj mafiánských gangů o převratný vynález spojovací techniky "Cybernet", vraždy rituálním pěstním nožem a ve finále i úsilí o získání zásadního vlivu na ekonomiku v globálním měřítku. Autor tradičně střídá lokality od Japonska a Spojených států až po tetrospektivní návraty do válečné reality Jihovýchodní Asie. Hluboká znalost orientálního myšlení charakterizující všechna Lustbaderova díla vyniká i v této novele.