Floating City (73 page)
Authors: Eric Van Lustbader
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is the author of 25 international bestsellers, including the three most recent Jason Bourne novels:
The Bourne Legacy
,
The Bourne Betrayal
and
The Bourne Sanction
. His books have been translated into over 20 languages. He lives with his wife in New York City and Long Island.
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The ancient Japanese art of death is practiced by a select few. Of those young men who are chosen to train in the way of the shadow warrior, most will fail. Those who pass these trials, the Ninja, become the silent assassins, lonely guardians, and unseen watchers of legend. But rarer still are those masters of the shadow craft, the Shiro – those whose fearsome abilities are matched only by their rigid code of honour. Men like Nicholas Linnear…
Out of the violent chaos of medieval Japan, a band of men from the mountain provinces rose to become some of the world’s most feared warriors. These men trained to perfect their art – a deadly union of martial skill and deception – to defend themselves against the warlords, samurai and bandits who sought to exploit them.
Hundreds of years later their name is a legend whispered down the generations. A select few are still trained in the ancient craft. Fewer still are selected to train at the feet of the most arcane practitioners of the shadow warriors…
Nicholas Linnear is one of these elect. And as the city of New York is terrorized by a ritualistic murderer, he may be the only man who can stop these killings. A ghost, an assassin, guided by honour and tradition: the Ninja.
The Ninja
is available
here
.
2.
The Miko
In ancient Japan they called them the Miko – the maidens of the shrine – women revered for their almost mystical powers who were rumoured to be the servants of the gods themselves.
Traditionally the Miko were a force for good, but the woman stalking the shadow warrior Nicholas Linnear seems bent on murder and revenge…
The Miko
is available
here
.
Many years ago two young men were trained by the same masters in the ancient art of the shadow warrior. One chose the path of the shiro – a life bound by honour and tradition. The other abandoned the code of the shadow warrior to follow a creed of blood and corruption.
Now following a spate of murders in Tokyo, the Shiro warrior Nicholas Linnear must finally confront his blood-brother…
White Ninja
is available
here
.
The samurai were the nobility of the warrior class. But if a samurai fell into disgrace, he became a ronin – a mercenary without state or master. From these outlaws came the bandit clans, the Yakuza. Today the world’s largest criminal syndicate.
Now Nicholas Linnear, a shadow warrior bound to tradition and honour, finds himself forced by an old oath to protect the head of this vast network. The man they call the Kaisho.
The Kaisho
is available
here
.
An inland empire ruled by a mercenary king hidden at the heart of the Vietnamese jungle.
But the shadow warrior Nicholas Linnear believes that the Floating City lies at the heart of a vast terrorist plot. And he may be the only person who can infiltrate this criminal stronghold...
Floating City
is available
here
.
Two warriors bound by blood, divided by honour... As a youth, Nicholas Linnear chose the path of the Ninja, placing tradition and honour above all. Many of his blood-brothers fell by the wayside – death has claimed them, as it claims all men. But one of his brothers abandoned this path to pursue a life of greed and corruption. Trained in the way of the shadow warrior, but lacking the code that guides the true Ninja. And this man has never forgotten Linnear...
Second Skin
is available
here
.
Jack McClure is an ATF agent who has lost everything but his job. His daughter was killed in a terrible accident and his marriage disintegrated shortly after. And even in the ATF he is an anomaly: as a guy who grew up on the streets, he always has one foot on each side of the law. But he’s also a very gifted agent, with analytical talents that are unsurpassed in the service.
When a terrible accident takes the life of his only daughter and his marriage falls apart, Jack McClure blames himself, numbing the pain by submerging himself in work. Then he receives a call from his old friend Edward Carson – a man who is only weeks from becoming President of the United States.
Carson’s daughter Alli has been kidnapped and Jack is the one man he can trust to go to any lengths to find his daughter and bring her home safely.
For Jack, this is a chance to lay his past to rest… but at what price? His search for Alli puts him in the path of a dangerous and calculating man. Someone whose actions are as cold as they are brilliant. Whose power and reach are seemingly infinite. And who would do anything to the future first daughter to attain his ends…
First Daughter
is available
here
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“This is a copy of Berns’s official itinerary. Kiev was his last stop. Remember this name: K. Rochev. As far as we know, Rochev was the last man he saw before he left Ukraine.”
Four days ago, US Senator Lloyd Berns was killed in a hit-and-run on the island of Capri off the Italian coast. His death deals a serious blow to President Carson’s precarious new administration. But more worrying is that Berns was never officially on Capri. According to the White House, Berns was on a tour of the Ukraine.