Luke Rhinehart
WHITE WIND, BLACK RIDER
Oboko finds Matari like a blur of darkness lying in the snow of a blizzard. After he carries her
lifeless body into an ancient abandoned temple he is astonished when she opens her eyes. What
had seemed a frozen lump of silk is transformed into a beautiful woman. Matari says softly, "I
didn't die."
Thus begins the most dramatic and moving of Luke Rhinehart's books. He has woven an exciting story of
three samurai and the beautiful woman they each love, trapped by their very virtues into deadly conflict.
Oboko is the poet of the wind, a peace-loving student of Zen; Izzi, the lusty, life-loving court poet on his
way to serve the great Lord Arishi, a proud samurai who has vowed to kill Matari, who he believes has
been unfaithful. When Lord Arishi's samurai pursue them, Oboko, Izzi and Matari each must choose,
with each of their lives in the balance.
"A strange jewel of a book; it casts lights and shadows although it is as simply written as a child's poem"
...Kilburn Times.
"A powerful, exciting yarn"...All About Books.
Luke Rhinehart is the internationally acclaimed author of The Dice Man and six other books. The Dice
Man, cited by a BBC production as one of the fifty most influential books of the last half-century, was
honored by Loaded Magazine in 1999 as the "Novel of the Century." It has been an international best
seller for thirty years and is selling more copies now than ever. In the last few years three documentaries
have been shot about Luke or people influenced by the book, three stage plays based loosely on Luke's
work have toured the U.K., and the six-part TV series Dice will be aired later this year.
His other books include:
WHIM, a comic novel about a Magical teenager sent to earth by the Lord Chance on a quest for U.T.--
ultimate truth.
WHITE WIND, BLACK RIDER, a dramatic and moving story of three samurai and their conflicting and
deadly loves for the beautiful Matari.
THE BOOK OF THE DIE, a collection of essays, parables, proverbs, film scenes and stories that
dramatize his unique ideas; and
And LONG VOYAGE BACK, an extraordinary story of people fleeing by sailboat from a nuclear
holocaust.
Visit Luke at www.lukerhinehart.net.
