“Energy is the kick I need with my champagne.” “I love Bryan Ferry, David Bowie, Iggy Pop.” These are the people who will talk about you most. His mother had once said to him, Choose your friends with care. Swimming in the heavy sea of memory, he thinks, but there must be an answer. He could have been an actor, but he was not. He was fascinated by emotion and all the ways it could be falsely induced. He went to the theater as often as possible. This epiphany-occurred early in his life and changed him forever. Once one has stared death in the face, one comes away both with one’s reality shattered and with it automatically reconstructed along different lines. Seen from a distance, the entire entrance was made up to resemble the inner pedals of an enormous orchid or, if one’s mind ran to such images, a woman’s sexual organ.Īt the point of death, he had learned, everything is possible. Here are some of the lines that captured me in this continuing saga of love, revenge, crime, suspense (with a lot of Japanese martial arts mysticism): I’m anxious to start book four, THE KAISHO (published in 1993). THE WHITE NINJA was just as suspenseful as the first two books. I always come away with insight of all sorts from Van Lustbader’s writings. The first book, THE NINJA, was published in 1980 the second, THE MIKO, in 1984. This is the third ((published in 1990) of the six-book series about Nicholas Linnear, The Ninja.
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