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Born and raised in New York City, Eric Lustbader graduated from Columbia University in 1969. Lustbader has had a number of fascinating careers. In addition to having written numerous bestselling novels, including Black Heart, The Ninja and Angel Eyes, he introduced Elton John to the American music scene. He spent fifteen years in the music industry in various capacities, including working for both Elektra and CBS Records. He is a former writer for Cash Box magazine where he wrote lead stories on new rock acts. In that capacity, he was the first person in the United States to predict the success of Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie and Santana, among many others.
Lustbader has taught in the All-Day Neighborhood 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.

Also by Eric Lustbader
NICHOLAS LINNEAR NOVELS
The Ninja
TheMiko
White Ninja

Black Heart
Sirens
Zero
French Kiss
Angel Eyes
JAKE MAROC NOVELS
Jian
Shan
THE SUNSET WARRIOR CYCLE
The Sunset Warrior
Shallows of Night
Dai-San
Beneath an Opal Moon







ERIC LUSTBADER
Black Blade

Grafton
An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

Grafton
An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 77-85 Fulham Palace Road Hammersmith, London W6 8JB
Special overseas edition 1992 98765432
First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 1992
Copyright Eric Lustbader 1992
The Author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
ISBN 0 586 21510 7
'A Shinto Shrine' by Masaoka Shiki, 'Haze' by Taniguchi Buson, 'An Invitation to Etsujin' by Matsuo Basho are reprinted from An Introduction to Haiku by Harold G. Henderson. Copyright 1958 by Harold G. Henderson. Used by permission of Doubleday, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.
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