The Ninja

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Therefore the reader get to know a variety of personalities. The Ninja is a high-voltage novel of intrigue and sensuality, richly characterised, fuelled by relentless suspense, an extraordinary thriller, least to say.

If there’s a main character in the book I think it would be Nicholas Linnear, a man of half-English, half-Oriental origin. A quite special man I will tell you more about later in this report. Anyway, the story begins with a murder, a clean, silent and mysterious murder. The police don’t have a clue, so they call in Nicholas, an expert on this type of murders. Nicholas doesn’t want to tell the others in the beginning, but he has his thoughts. As the story continues he start to split up the problem and suddenly everything is crystal clear. This isn’t the usual type of murder, instead something even worse. An assassination, performed by a man bound by the blackest code of honour and skilled in the deadliest martial arts. This was the work of ...

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to offer Nicholas a drink.
“Your drink, the man in the dark suit said.”
“Nicholas reached forward through the open partition and, as he did so, he saw from certain minute changes in the other precisely what was coming. Curious, he allowed it to happen. As soon as his hand was through the partition, the man lifted the drink away and grabbed at Nicholas’s wrist with the other hand. It was a very swift motion yet, from Nicholas’s point of view, slow and clumsy. He could have counteracted it in any number of different ways.”
“Instead, he watched passively as the other gripped his wrist, exerting pressure to turn the hand over. The man peered ...

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