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The Ninja

by Eric Van Lustbader · 1980

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"Totally absorbing...as gripping a tale of hatred and revenge as you will read...It is superb."

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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.

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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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Setting
1980s1980sMore like thisLess of thisJapanJapanMore like thisLess of thisAsiaAsiaMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of this
Mood
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Audience
adult
Length
long · 526 pages

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