A westerner raised in Japan, he survived the destruction of Hiroshima to emerge as the world''s most artful lover and its most accomplished assassin. His greatest desire is to attain a state of effortless perfection . . . shibumi. But he is about to face his most sinister and corrupt enemy -- a supermonolith of espionage and monopoly bent on destroying
him. . . .


From the Paperback edition.