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Black Blade

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Wolf Matheson, a NYPD homicide detective investigates the murder of a billionnaire who dies in bizarre circumstances. Sooner rather than later, he is up against corrupt fellow officers and discovers that the body found is the tip of the iceberg. In Japan, the Black Blade Society, a kind of Yakuza-style organisation has the very latest in neural-net computers called The Hive planning their greatest operation yet. In Washington, a clandestine agency is conspiring to destroy Japan's abilities as an economic world power. Add these three elements together, throw in Wolf's love interest Chika, a Japanese girl who leads him to the Black Blade Society and helps him rediscover an ability he was taught by his Native American family in order to fight the bad guys. Like THE NINJA and all the other novels in that series, BLACK BLADE has all the necessary ingredients of a Lustbader classic - action, suspense, Oriental mysticism, sizzling sex scenes and martial arts combat scenes put well into print. Overall, a must purchase!

Eastern mysticism and martial arts meet tough guy detective yankee style. Not exactly a shocker there. The Black Blades are another scary Japanese gang, but the plot they are looking to implement is a bit more far reaching.

More of a James Bond style thing, use a supercomputer program to do a bit of world domination. That sort of thing. Luckily he has a girlfriend to help him.

The characters are alive. The plot is complex and rich with detail. I found it to be a wonderful night time read. Eric Lustbader books get better each time you read it, you will notice details you haven't noticed before.

Lustbader never fails to deliver taut, spine-tingling, often erotically charged action. Black Blade will trap you so don't expect to take too long to read it.