The Musashi Flex, Steve Perry
The Musashi Flex, Steve Perry
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The Musashi Flex

Author: Steve Perry

Narrator: Joe Barrett

Unabridged: 9 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/19/2009

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

In the early twenty-third century, one of very few ways to rise above your caste is to become a player in the extreme martial arts game known as the Musashi Flex. Now, three people will enter its violent culture.Lazlo Mourn is ready to hang up his blades when his moves suddenly evolve toward a form of fighting unlike any the galaxy has ever seen. Journalist Cayne Sola is determined to get the big story on the games, and not even the most blood-hungry Flex fighter will stop her. Billionaire Ellis Mtumbo Shaw has everything money can buy except fame on the Flex fields of combat, but an untested drug may put that within his reach.Their fates will entwine and be decided in the bloody arena of the Flex. And if they survive, their story will become legend.

About Steve Perry

Steve Perry is an American television writer and science fiction author. He has written books in the Star Wars, Alien, and Conan universes, as well as for Tom Clancy’s Net Force series. He is a practitioner of the Indonesian martial art of pencak silat, which inspired him to create the fictional martial arts sumito and teräs käsi featured in the Matador series for which he is best known. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.

About Joe Barrett

Joe Barrett, an actor and Audie Award and Earphones Award–winning narrator, has appeared both on and off Broadway as well as in hundreds of radio and television commercials.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Will on January 17, 2022

Fun pulpy sci-fi. You do not need to have read any of the other books in this series to follow along with this one ( I have not read any of the previous entries ). This is mostly a blood sport / highlander mix with a science fiction coat of paint on it. Good time .......more

Goodreads review by Dan on April 20, 2017

Solid addition to the Matador series. This book can be read independent of the other books but there are a few ties that make it more enjoyable in my opinion. Characters were interesting, if not a tad cliche--but an interesting end that tied everything up nicely made up for some of that.......more

Goodreads review by Bryan457 on April 15, 2016

This book is set in the Matador universe (it is a prequel to "The 97th Step"), and tells the story of the man who created the 97 steps fighting system of Sumito. It and "The Man Who Never Missed" are my favorites from the series. Lazlo Mourn is ranked in the Top Twenty of the Musashi Flex, a highly da......more

Goodreads review by Lin on August 25, 2013

A pre-prequel of the Matador trilogy-turned-franchise, The Musashi Flex was as engaging a read as the best of Steve Perry's series. Perry is an able story-teller, and it's a joy to read his well-crafted work. I don't ever stumble over missteps in his mechanics, so I can simply immerse myself in the......more

Goodreads review by Xander on November 19, 2020

Almost. This was almost a 5-star for me. The action is excellent, the martial arts and attitude are on point. The plot, while not over complicated dispenses itself at a good, steady pace, and the character are relatable with motivations that can be understood. But the sex. Lé sigh. You can just tell......more

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