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Shibumi

Shibumi

Shibumi is a novel published in 1979, written in English by Trevanian, a pseudonym of Rodney William Whitaker.Shibumi is set in the 1970s and details the struggle between the "Mother Company", a conspiracy of energy companies that secretly controls much of the western world, and a highly skilled assassin, Nicholaï Hel.


“Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech.”

Source: Shibumi

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