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    The Oligarch's Daughter
    The Oligarch's Daughter
    The Oligarch's Daughter
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    The Oligarch's Daughter

    By Eric Van Lustbader

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    Nicholas Linnear, hero of New York Times–bestseller The Ninja, returns in an all-new adventure of intrigue, deceit, and death

    Returning to Tokyo after many years, Nicholas Linnear—the ninja—must make a deal with the devil if he is to maintain control of his newly launched shipping concern. The exiled Russian oligarch Vladimir Orkin is the buyer Linnear needs for his liquid natural gas, but his offer is contingent on the ninja’s performance of an unusual service. Well aware of Linnear’s legendary skills in martial arts, Orkin demands that he take deadly revenge on the oligarch’s longtime enemy and avenge his beautiful daughter. As a final persuasion, he dangles information about Linnear’s past—information the ninja has never been able to uncover on his own. The lure is irresistible, but the danger may prove his undoing. . . .
     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Media
    Release dateFeb 23, 2016
    ISBN9781504030397
    The Oligarch's Daughter
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    Eric Van Lustbader

    ERIC VAN LUSTBADER is the author of many New York Times bestselling thrillers, including The Testament, First Daughter, Last Snow, and Blood Trust. Lustbader was chosen by Robert Ludlum's estate to continue the Jason Bourne series. He and his wife live on the South Fork of Long Island.

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      The Oligarch’s Daughter

      An All-New Story of the Ninja

      Eric Van Lustbader

      I: KANJI

      Nicholas Linnear returned to Tokyo in a steady rain that flooded the streets and turned the buildings sheet gray. The massive neon signs, blinking and scurrying within their borders, seemed dull, bloodless above a sea of umbrellas moving as if to one heartbeat. Nevertheless, the weather was a distinct improvement over the industrial smog that had trapped Shanghai in its suffocating embrace that morning. Already, to the north, in Beijing, people had donned respirators to keep their lungs clear.

      Nicholas had left his new LNG supertanker still stuck in port, departing Shanghai in something of a hurry after discovering that the powerful Commissioner Anna Song had tried to have him killed following an unsuccessful attempt to make a grab for the nascent energy arm of his business. In desperation, she had attacked him herself, leaving him no choice but to kill her. If he had simply incapacitated her, he never would have been able to leave China.

      He stepped into the limousine waiting for him at Narita Airport. As he settled himself in the backseat, gave instructions to his driver, he felt a swell of relief to be rid of Anna Song and her carefully plotted spider’s web. But he was still left with the question of what to do with his tanker and the energy unit as a whole. The worldwide glut had hit everyone hard. His company had been spared the brunt of the collapse because it traded in liquid natural gas rather than oil, but the current marketplace was turning the enterprise from a potential moneymaker into a moneybleeder. Though his training in Japan had taught him to deal in long-range planning, he also had to find a way to make the bleeding stop. He had two choices: sell the business at fire-sale prices, or find a buyer for LNG that was in worse shape than the market.

      That’s where Vladimir Orkin entered the picture. A former pal of Russia’s president when they were both young men in the KGB in Leningrad, Orkin had profited fantastically from his connections as well as from his own keen mind after becoming a power-broker oligarch. His mother was born in the far north, Murmansk, which accounted for the Asian cast to his eyes and cheeks—also perhaps why he had married a Japanese woman and felt comfortable here in Tokyo. He made the bulk of his billions trading in Russian natural gas reserves. But about three years ago, he had apparently gotten too arrogant for his own good and had run afoul of his old friend, who had accused him of embezzlement. Orkin fled with his Japanese wife, traveling through several countries in Southeast Asia before settling down in Tokyo. Apparently, he had made a shadowy deal with someone in power, for unidentified minions had thwarted no less than two attempts on his life already.

      Now, without access to his gas hoards, Orkin was in need of an alternative source. His money supply dwindling, his debt ballooning, he had tried every conventional way he knew how to get out of the trap created by the event overrunning his plans. But this was no conventional situation, so his eye had at last turned toward Nicholas. There was no doubt that, from

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