The Death and Life of Nicholas Linnear
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4.0 • 50 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A new story featuring the legendary modern-day ninja, from a #1 New York Times–bestselling author.
This was to be one of the greatest nights of Nicholas Linnear’s life—a crowning achievement. After taking over his family’s company and quadrupling its size, he has gambled it all on a liquid natural gas trade with the Chinese, a deal worth untold billions. Is that why he just woke up in a pinewood coffin?
In honor of the ebook publication of the original Nicholas Linnear novels—The Ninja, The Miko, and White Ninja—Eric Van Lustbader returns to the series for a new heart-stopping adventure. Drugged to the brink of death, Linnear reemerges in a desperate attempt to save his business and find the people who tried to bury him alive. No time has passed for Nicholas Linnear. The Ninja is as deadly as ever, and his blade is just as sharp.
Customer Reviews
The Death and Life of Nicholas Linnear
A good but not great entry into the Ninja series. Mr. Van Lustbader seems to have gotten away from what has made the Nicholas Linnear character his greatest fictional work. In this latest entry you could easily substitute "Bourne" for "Linnear" and you would, in essence, have the same story. Gone are the flashback sequences to old Japan linking the past to the present showing how the mysticism and spirit of old world Japan link and create the new world that Nicholas Linnear inhabits; and how Nicholas Linnear is a representation of that old world Japan mixed with the new. Simply throwing in a few quotes from Sun Tzu, a Japanese sword, and reference to spiritual mysticism does not a good Ninja story make. I hope this is simply a prelude to the novel Mr. Van Lustbader should write to continue the adventures of his greatest character. This entry teased me enough to yearn for a true Nicholas Linnear novel so I'll be rereading the Ninja this week.
It a trick
Just short stories not really a follow up
Death & Life of Nicholas Linnear
Brief, exciting...perhaps too brief. Will there be more? Thirty pages that reads more like a chapter not so much a story.