Ninja Cycle

The Ninja Cycle series is a series of thriller, crime fiction, and suspense series written by the popular American novelist named Eric Van Lustbader. This series is also referred to as Nicholas Linnear series, based on the main character of the series. There are basically 6 books published in the series in total, which were released between the years 1980 and 1995. In the year 2014, author Eric Lustbander published an ebook titled ‘The Death and Life of Nicholas Linnear’. As of now, he is working on the next book in the series, which is expected to be published soon. All the books of the Ninja Cycle series depicted Nicholas Linnear as the lead character. He is introduced by author Eric Lustbander as a martial arts specialist of various styles in the post war Japan. The initial story of the series begins at the time when Nicholas Linnear gets the martial arts training along with his cousin named Saigo. During a small duel competition, Nicholas defeats Saigo as well as a fellow student. This causes the development of bitter feelings in the heart of Saigo against Nicholas Linnear and his rage, he rapes Nicholas as well as his girlfriend. He even kills Nicholas’s girlfriend. Later, Nicholas sets out to find Saigo and take revenge of the atrocities that he did not him and his girlfriend.