Satori
Also by Don Winslow
A Cool Breeze on the Underground
The Trail to Buddha’s Mirror
Way Down on the High Lonely
A Long Walk up the Water Slide
While Drowning in the Desert
Isle of Joy
The Death and Life of Bobby Z
California Fire and Life
Looking for a Hero
The Power of the Dog
The Winter of Frankie Machine
The Dawn Patrol
The Gentlemen’s Hour
Savages
Also by Trevanian
The Eiger Sanction
The Loo Sanction
The Main
Shibumi
The Summer of Katya
Incident at Twenty-Mile
Hot Night in the City
The Crazyladies of Pearl Street
1339 or So: Being an Apology for a Pedlar
(Writing as Nicolas Seare)
Rude Tales and Glorious
(Writing as Nicolas Seare)
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Winslow, Don, 1953—
Satori / Don Winslow.
A novel based on Trevanian’s Shibumi.
eISBN: 978-0-307-39873-4
I. Trevanian. Shibumi II. Title.
PS3573.I555S28 2010 813′.54 C2010-904204-2
v3.1
To Richard Pine
Contents
Part One: TOKYO, OCTOBER 1951
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Part Two: BEIJING, JANUARY 1952
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69
Chapter 70
Chapter 71
Chapter 72
Chapter 73
Chapter 74
Chapter 75
Chapter 76
Chapter 77
Chapter 78
Chapter 79
Chapter 80
Chapter 81
Chapter 82
Chapter 83
Chapter 84
Chapter 85
Chapter 86
Part Three: WULIANG MOUNTAINS, YUNNAN PROVINCE, CHINA
Chapter 87
Chapter 88
Chapter 89
Chapter 90
Chapter 91
Chapter 92
Chapter 93
Chapter 94
Chapter 95
Chapter 96
Chapter 97
Chapter 98
Chapter 99
Chapter 100
Chapter 101
Chapter 102
Chapter 103
Chapter 104
Chapter 105
Chapter 106
Chapter 107
Chapter 108
Chapter 109
Chapter 110
Chapter 111
Chapter 112
Chapter 113
Chapter 114
Chapter 115
Chapter 116