Shibumi

Written by Trevanian

-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. . . .

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Jonathan Hemlock, art professor and government hit man, is featured in:

The Eiger Sanction (1972)
The Loo Sanction (1972)
The Main (1976)

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This was an assigned book that my old American Lit teacher showed me a couple years after I graduated. I read it and promptly freaked out on him, asking why we didnt read it when I was in his class. Shibumi is classic espionage bad ass James Bond, only cooler and with purpose.