Satori
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| Rating | : | 4.59 (947 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B004QXZPYS |
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| Number of Pages | : | 135 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Dan Santos. said just so I could get over the fact that one of my favorite writers had died. Trevanian was no Hemingway, but Winslow is no Trevanian. That was the first thought that came to mind.I really fought the urge to arrive at a harsh judgment of Shibumi’s sequel. I really did because I wanted Satori to be so much more. In fact, I wanted Winslow to be the new Trevanian, just so I could get over the fact that one of my favorite writers had died. No such luck.Trevanian had a delicate way with words and thoughts. Winslow…well Winslow is not quite so deli. A fantastic book which has everything you would want in an action packed unique spy type novel. Joseph J. Truncale When I ordered this fantastic 504 page hardcover book (Satori: A novel based on Trevanian’s Shibumi by Don Winslow) I had not yet read Shibumi and held off reading Satori until I finished Trevanian’s book. As I said in my review of Shibumi, I was somewhat disappointed in that book and character; however, what a difference it makes when another author, in this case Don Winslow, writes about Nicholai Hel. It was like reading about a different character and I loved Sato. A disappointment Alan Mentzer A disappointment. There was moments of great potential, but this "prequel" never re-captured the original characters' temperaments or motivations. Hel was not the Hel from the original, there was none of the hubris from the original and the melodramatic love story. There was the very jarring misapplication of giving De Lhandes the swearing style of Le Cagot's from the original book. Like this author confused the two characters from the original. Most characters were two dimensio
It's almost certainly a suicide mission, but Hel accepts. Twenty-six year-old Nicholai Hel has spent the last three years in solitary confinement at the hands of the Americans. 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: go to Beijing and kill the Soviet Union's Commissioner to China. Nicholai Hel--genius, mystic, and the perfect, formidable assassin--was first introduced to readers in Shibumi, the classic #1 bestseller by master storyteller Trevanian. Now, critically-acclaimed author Don Winslow continues Hel's story for the first time in this all-new, blockbuster thriller.It is the fall of 1951 and the Korean War is raging. Hel is a master of hoda korosu or "naked kill," fluent in seven languages, and has honed extraordinary "proximity sense" - an extra awareness of the presence of da