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Matadora
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780441522071
ISBN: 0441522076
Label: Ace
Manufacturer: Ace
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: February 01, 1986
Publisher: Ace
Studio: Ace
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Editorial Review:
She's one of the best martial artists in the universe. One of the finest bodyguards alive. And she's back.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Back in print at last
Matadora was the hardest to find of the series until the last few years and an increase in used book postings online.
The three first published books of the "Matadora" series are a seamless tale of martial arts, politics, spirituality, and psych warfare told in a lean pulp style. "The 97th Step" is the later written prologue to the story and is not as lean.
I am not a martial arts reader but this series blew me away and I paid a premium to get some of the originally hard ... Read More
Rating: - Couldn't Put It Down!
I started the Matador series with this book and HAD to have all the others. It's fast paced, well written and has a Black WOMAN as the main character. When was the last time you read a book with all of these qualities. Dirisha takes no prisoners in love or war. Yes, there is some sex but it's not X-rated and last I heard sex is a normal part of life. This book has killing, too and that should be (but isn't) more offensive than sex.
The series is a great read as is anything by Steve ... Read More
Rating:  - Great book as a part of the series
Matadora seems to follow the Man Who Never Missed rather indirectly, with the main characters following in the footsteps of that man, Emile Antoon Khadaji. The setting is a unique mix of science fiction and martial arts of the kind found in the best Hong-Kong action films. The universe is deep and consistent, and revealed expertly.
Dirisha, a martial arts master searching for more in life, finds a school training the best bodyguards in the galaxy. It also has a few political goals. Matadora's ... Read More
Rating:  - Sci-Fi Martial Warfare at its BEST!
Matadora picks up where the first novel in the series, The Man Who Never Missed left off, Dirisha Zuri, the lovely and deadly former bouncer of the Jade Flower is walking the infamous Musashi Flex, an underworld challenge of martial combat that allows killing, when she is pulled back into her former employer's mysterious web of rebellion and is given an offer she will not refuse: the chance to train in Emille's secret style of Martial Combat, and to become one of the empire's most sought after and feared bodyguards ... Read More
Rating:  - Rate this book XXX for explicit sex scenes
I found this book not only boring, but absolutely not suitable for anyone under 18 because of the (to me) gratuitis and explicit sex scenes involving, woman/woman, man/woman threesome, etc. I absolutely had no expectation of this when I began reading. Also, the book is very boring, very little in the way of any "action", mostly a lot of (I presume) the author's philosophy. I skimmed through to the end, in hopes of something interesting occuring, but to no avail. I will not buy any of his books in the future!!
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