title: When Ninjas Attack: A Survival Guide for Defending Yourself Against the Silent Assassins
author:  Samuel Kaplan 
description: Dirty Japanese-Matt-Fargo-9781569755655-10.00-Ulysses Press-07/2007-15000--<br />
zlib_text: **P** **URE** **I** **NSTINCT**
  
    
  
  “Lay down your weapons and surrender, Assassins. You are surrounded and
  outnumbered!” shouted the lead soldier, stepping forward.
  
  Before he could utter another word, Ezio had sprung from his stance, energy
  returning to his weary limbs. The lead guard had no time to react, not
  expecting his opponent to be so bold in the face of such overwhelming odds.
  Ezio’s sword arm circled in a blur, the blade whistling as it sliced through
  the air—the guard tried in vain to raise his sword to parry, but Ezio’s
  movement was simply too quick. The Assassin’s sword hit its mark with
  unfaltering accuracy, slicing into the guard’s exposed neck—a plume of blood
  following its impact. The three remaining guards stood motionless—astonished
  at the speed of the Assassin, and idiotic in the face of such a skilled foe.
  This delay was their death. Ezio’s blade had barely finished its first lethal
  arc as he raised his left hand, the mechanism of his hidden-blade clicking as
  the