Author: Don Winslow Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Thriller, Fiction, Mystery, Crime Culture: Japan
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ISBNs: 9780446561921 9780446561914 0446561924 0446561916 |
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It is the fall of 1951, and the Korean War is raging. Twenty-six-year-old Nicholai Hel has spent the last three years in solitary confinement at the hands of the Americans. Hel is a master of hoda korosu, or "naked kill," is fluent in seven languages, and has honed extraordinary "proximity sense"-an extra-awareness of the presence of danger. He has the skills to be the world's most fearsome assassin and now the CIA needs him.
The Americans offer Hel freedom, money, and a neutral passport in exchange for one small service: to go to Beijing and kill the Soviet Union's commissioner to China. It's almost certainly a suicide mission, but Hel accepts. Now he must survive chaos, violence, suspicion, and betrayal while trying to achieve his ultimate goal of satori-the possibility of true understanding and harmony with the world.
This book is part of the "Nicholai Hel" series. Here are some other books from this series:
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