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, 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... Mehr
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