Shibumi by Trevanian; Trevanian Books, Book 4; Unabridged MP3 Audio Book; Narrator Christopher Lane

Nicholai Hel born in the ravages of World War I China to an aristocratic Russian mother and a mysterious German father, raised in the spiritual gardens of a Japanese Go Master, he survives the destruction of Hiroshima to emerge as the world’s most artful lover and its most accomplished—and highly paid assassin. Genius, mystic, master of language and culture, Hel’s secret is his determination to attain a rare kind of personal excellence, a state of effortless perfection . . . Shibumi. Now living in an isolated mountain fortress with his magnificent Eurasian mistress—He’ll faces his most sinister enemy—a supermonolith of espionage and monopoly. The battle lines are drawn. Ruthless power and corruption on one side and on the other …Shibumi.

Trevanian (Rodney Whitaker, 1931-2005) was the best-selling author of Shibumi, The Eiger Sanction, The Main, Summer of Katya, and Incident at Twenty Mile. He was also an educator in communication and dramatic arts, and wrote nonfiction books under his own name. His books have been translated into more than fourteen languages.