num_pages: 512
description: In this intense and compelling novel of revenge Eric Van Lustbader mesmerises the reader with a novel that is not only a thrilling sequel to his bestseller The Ninja but a complex story that actually surpasses it in terms of sheer excitement, exoticism, action and human drama.Returning to Japan after more than a decade, Nicholas Linnear accompanies the ruthless tycoon Raphael Tomkin on a business trip to effect a merger between Tomkin Industries and the petrochemical group Sato. Though prepared for tortuous negotiations in a deal that could revolutionise the computer business, and steeling himself all the while to take his revenge on Tomkin for the death of his friend Lew Croaker, Nicholas is nevertheless unsettled by the converging ghosts of his Japanese past - especially that of his great love, Yukio, drowned all those years ago by his ferocious ninja cousin Saigo.As Nicholas penetrates the power-maze of the industrialised new Japan, one of Sato's top executives becomes the first victim of Wu Shing, an arcane form of lethal ritual punishment, and Nicholas senses the potent revenging force that has sworn to destroy him, body and soul.In a confrontation that is more graphically explosive, more terrifying than even his remorseless battle with Saigo in The Ninja, the past becomes murderously intertwined with the present as Nicholas Linnear grapples with the modern successor to the dreaded sorceress of Japanese mythology: the Miko.
language: English
title: The Miko
titlecomplete: The Miko (Nicholas Linnear, #2)
genres: Thriller, Fiction, Mystery, Japan, Suspense, Action, Crime, Martial Arts, Fantasy, Adventure
ratings_count: 3074
series: Nicholas Linnear
publisher: Granada Publishing