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The Cutting Season
Meet Dr. Xenon Pearl, mid thirties, the best neurosurgeon in South Florida, a girlfriend, a close family, life should be great. Except this is not his life, or not all of it. Pearl is the reincarnation of a hard-core Chinese warrior, or at least that's what a vision of his now deceased martial arts master tells him.In the spirit of martial arts probity, The Cutting Season
...morePaperback, 337 pages
Published
July 1st 2009
by YMAA Publication Center
(first published June 25th 2007)
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A slick, pacey martial arts thriller set in southern Florida. Xenon Pearl is a scalpel-wielding neurosurgeon by day and a sword-wielding vigilante by night. Trained in the martial arts by his Chinese nanny since birth, he is visited by the ghost of the now-deceased nanny. She urges him to right the wrong of both present and past lives, of which there are many.
Soon Xenon (‘Zee’ to his friends) finds himself up against the Russian mafia and various other low-lifes who deserve his own u...more
Soon Xenon (‘Zee’ to his friends) finds himself up against the Russian mafia and various other low-lifes who deserve his own u...more
I like the Rosenfeld's writing style, and Xenon Pearl is an interesting and unique character, but the whole reincarnation-cycle plot device got on my nerves. Every time Zee meets someone, however briefly, he half-remembers meeting and/or killing that person in China centuries ago. It was also annoying how Zee and Jordan clicked immediately because they still had that connection from past lives. The interconnection of all of these characters is alluded to at one point when Zee contemplates how...more
Rosenfeld did a great job on this book. I will have to read the rest of his works. The plot is great. The story is fresh and overall a wonderful book to read.
I bought a few martial arts crime thrillers in the past couple of weeks. All book 1 of a series.
I finished Sensei last week and it was a fantastic read but this book was phenomenal! A fast paced, gritty story full of drama and excitement with intricately described surgery and fights.
I loved it from start to finish and cant wait to pick up book number 2 - Quiet Teacher.
I finished Sensei last week and it was a fantastic read but this book was phenomenal! A fast paced, gritty story full of drama and excitement with intricately described surgery and fights.
I loved it from start to finish and cant wait to pick up book number 2 - Quiet Teacher.
This is one of the coolest, most zen books I've read in quite some time. This is a book I will read again.
The only zen you find on the top of a mountain is the zen you bring with you.
-Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence
The only zen you find on the top of a mountain is the zen you bring with you.
-Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence
Read both this and it's sequel, Quiet Teacher. Both ended on down notes and where pretty black noir. It's labeled Aikido because of some aiki characters in QT - It'll be interesting to see if there's a third book. Pretty depressing
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