Tengu the Mountain Goblin (Connor Burke Martial Arts Series #3) »

Events spawned by hatreds old and new and personal ties of honor once again reach into the lives of martial arts scholar Connor Burke and the master Warrior Yamashita, snaring them in a struggle of international proportions which ultimately threatens the lives of both master and pupil, setting them upon a path in search of the most deadly of foes.

Jo Ann Vicarel - Library Journal

While Connor Burke, an Asian studies professor and black belt, is off critiquing the martial arts training of a U.S. special ops group, a Harvard anthropology student, the daughter of a wealthy Japanese family, is kidnapped in a remote area of the Philippines. Her ransom is paid, but the terrorists also take the man who delivers it. The man is Yamishita, Burke's sensei, or teacher. Burke, his brother Micky, and his police partner, Art, go on their most dangerous mission to a remote part of the world where they have little hope of success. In his third thriller (after Sensei and Deshi), Donohue kicks out prose that is as fluid as the martial arts moves he so eloquently describes. Of course, Barry Eisler's John Rain series comes to mind as a read-a-like.