Satori
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Narrated by:
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Holter Graham
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By:
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Trevanian
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Don Winslow
About this listen
A gripping thriller that follows assassin Nicholai Hel across Asia as he fights to regain his freedom.
Sugamo Prison, Japan, October 1951. Nicholai Hel has spent the last three years in solitary confinement for the murder of his mentor. A formidable assassin as well as a master of hoda korosu or 'naked kill', he has developed a supreme awareness of the presence of danger. Suddenly offered the chance of freedom, he feels it now as never before...
Overseen by Haverford, his American spymaster he must go to Beijing and kill the Soviet Union's commissioner to China. In a landscape primed for war this is a suicide mission he has no choice but to accept.
Can Hel succeed in winning his freedom and if so, at what cost? And can he ever achieve his ultimate goal of satori - the possibility of true understanding and harmony with the world?
(P)2011 Headline Digital
Critic reviews
"Written with a panache that Fleming would have admired." (Daily Mail)
"Exhilarating" (LA Times)
loved every minute of it,gripping story
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A beautiful book
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Shibumi was a very special story and Hel a very special character. Although I laboured through the whole of Satori there were so many key mistakes (I remember Naked Killl being the art of using thousands of readily available everyday objects to kill, not mystic leopard paw chi...?) And although I am aware that Winslow was portraying a younger Hel, Trevanian had already done that... Winslow did not have the same grasp on the Asian culture and mind that Trevanian did, so he turned Hel into the westerner Michelle to cover for that.
And the dodgy accents...! The heroine went through Russian, French trans and a few others in the space of a few chapters... Hel sounded like a spoiled American child and the Vietnamese stereotype could not have been done better by the team that brought us Team America!
My opinion is that Satori is fan fiction with a budget. I personally don't feel it to be the true story of Nicolai Hel and that the prequel is still fair game for another writer to take on.
Saying that, I will be reading the book to see if the narration coloured my experience.
Sorry Don!
Fan fiction with funding
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