num_pages: 496
description: Nicholas Linnear, half-Caucasian, half-Oriental hero of The Ninja, Miko, and White Ninja, makes a high voltage return in Eric Lustbader’s most mesmerizing novel yet…New York Times bestselling authro Eric Lustbader has achieved unparalleled stature as Master of the Orient in his unique, cutting-edge thrillers. His authoritative vision of the Japanese sheds a rare and much-needed light on the challenges of true power in today’s world. Now he brings us his most towering achievement to date, an epic saga seething with sensuality, intrigue, and obsession. The ancient mysteries of the East, the darkest desires of the spirit and the flesh, and the driving forces of a new global order—all explode to life in The Kaisho.A debt of honor has come due, and Nicholas Linnear—the Ninja—has vowed to pay it in full. Years ago he made a promise to his father: If a man named Mikio Okami ever sought his help, he would respond without question, no matter the cost. Now the time has come to fulfill his pledge…and meet his destiny.Mikio Okami is the Kaisho—the boss of the bosses of the Yakuza, the Japanese underworld. In his Venice headquarters, he realizes that he has been marked for death. But the identity of the assassin, and the inexorable compulsion that drives him, are shrouded in mysticism and madness. Honor-bound to protect Okami, Linnear is prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice: a descent into a chasm of knowledge so potent, of dangers so unfathomable, that even if he survives he will emerge changed forever.At the same time, in America, one of Linnear’s oldest friends, ex-NYPD detective Lew Croaker, has been lured out of retirement to investigate the brutal, ritualistic slaying of Mafia godfather Dominic Goldoni. But his search for Goldoni’s assassin leads Croaker to the Don’s sister instead…a woman capable of anything, a Mafia princess on the verge of embracing a forbidden power. Margarite has looked into the eyes of her brother’s killer—into the eyes of the devil—and tasted a passion as hot as the inner circle of hell.The truth about Goldoni’s murder stretches far beyond the mystery of Margarite. Croaker has uncovered evidence of a vast alliance, a terrifying conspiracy reaching into the highest levels of the Mafia and the Japanese Yakuza. One last thread in the web remains to be spun—the execution of the Kaisho.From the back streets of Paris to the back rooms of Washington, from the twisting canals of Venice to the glass and steel towers of Tokyo, Linnear and Croaker are the lone warriors in a titanic struggle against an incomprehensible evil. They stand on the opposite edges of an abyss, their lives and their souls at risk, facing an enemy willing to go to any extreme, commit any sin to achieve its ultimate end. Drawn into a war as old as the temptation to power, they enter a world of seduction and betrayal, of primeval fears, and primitive desires…the world of The Kaisho.
language: English
title: The Kaisho
titlecomplete: The Kaisho (Nicholas Linnear, #4)
genres: Fiction, Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller, Japan, Novels, Fantasy, Crime, Suspense
ratings_count: 1377
series: Nicholas Linnear
publisher: Atria