Lustbader has taught in the All-Day Neighbourhood School Division of the NYC Public School System and has also taught pre-schoolers in special early Childhood programmes.

Eric Lustbader, who travels worldwide in researching his novels, lives in Southampton, New York, with his wife Victoria Lustbader, who works for the Nature Conservancy.

Well, I don't want to give the whole story away in this report, so I am going to summarise the story very briefly.

The book isn't really just about a few selected people, but instead the author tries to see it from a lot of different perspectives. Therefore the r

It is quite obvious what the title points to. I mean, THE NINJA...you can easily hear what the novel is going to be about. So the title isn't that appealing, it's about Ninjas...plain and simple. But on the other hand, is there any better titles that would fit?

"Instead, he watched passively as the other gripped his wrist, exerting pressure to turn the hand over. The man peered closely at the edge of Nicholas's hand, which was hard and calloused as horn. The man lifted his gaze, nodded to the man beside Nicholas, then handled Nicholas his drink."

"She broke away from him. 'You've got no right to lecture me this way. Who the hell do you think you are? I say one thing to you and right away you think you know me'. She got up off the bed. 'You don't know shit about me. You never will. Who the fuck cares what you have to say anyway?'

"Nicholas reached forward through the open partition and, as he did so, he saw from certain minute changes in the other precisely what was coming. Curious, he allowed it to happen. As soon as his hand was through the partition, the man lifted the drink away and grabbed at Nicholas's wrist with the other hand. It was a very swift motion yet, from Nicholas's point of view, slow and clumsy. He could have counteracted it in any number of different ways."

"Your drink, the man in the dark suit said."

If there's a main character in the book I think it would be Nicholas Linnear, a man of half-English, half-Oriental origin. A quite special man I will tell you more about later in this report. Anyway, the story begins with a murder, a clean, silent and mysterious murder. The police don't have a clue, so they call in Nicholas, an expert on this type of murders. Nicholas doesn't want to tell the others in the beginning, but he has his thoughts. As the story continues he start to split up the problem and suddenly everything is crystal clear. This isn't the usual type of murder, instead something even worse. An assassination, performed by a man bound by the blackest code of honour and skilled in the deadliest martial arts. This was the work of a ninja, a far remnant of the East. Nicholas must fight against a past he can't escape, trapped in a web of old lust and present passions, he uses all his skill and knowledge to survive.

The author, as I have written earlier in the report, has a very strange and unusual stile and way of writing. But strange in a good way, I think. He has split the novel in two different time-dimensions

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Approximate Word count = 1660
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)