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Blood from Bloodby Barry EislerISBN 0141026065 (0-14-102606-5)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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Choke Pointby Barry EislerISBN 0141017635 (0-14-101763-5)
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Hard Rainby Barry EislerISBN 0451212460 (0-451-21246-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hard Rain'Book summary:Barry Eisler's half-breed freelance assassin John Rain returns to Tokyo for a second outing in Hard Rain, the sequel to Eisler's stunning 2002 debut, Rain Fall. Once again Rain is working with, or at least parallel to, Tatsu, a wily veteran of Japan's FBI equivalent, who aims to cleanse the Japanese government of its systemic corruption. To further this goal, he's persuaded the ever-cautious Rain to take out Murakami, a brutal gangster and hitman who specializes in making his killings look like suicide, a specialty Rain thought was his alone. Liquidating the dangerous and elusive Murakami proves to be a difficult task, however, one that leads to personal loss for Rain, and sets the plot on course for a climax that hits with the power of a well-delivered roundhouse kick.
Eisler builds on Rain's self-enforced isolation and loneliness as he expertly shows the reader Tokyo as channeled by Chandler, transforming the burgeoning metropolis into a noir catacomb of dimly lit hostess bars, scheming bureaucrats, shadowy intelligence agents, and outlaw martial arts dojos where thugged-up yakuza train for illicit death matches.
While the plot becomes complicated toward the novel's conclusion, Rain is a refreshing and complex character whom readers will want to see return for another installment. If you've a yen for a thriller that mixes suspense, intrigue, and action with a Japanese flavor and a hardboiled American attitude, Eisler's Hard Rain is an excellent choice. --Benjamin Reese [via]
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- Hard Rain: ISBN 0718145585 (0-7181-4558-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Books, Limited - Hard Rain: ISBN 0141010118 (0-14-101011-8)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited - Hard Rain: ISBN 0718146921 (0-7181-4692-1)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited - Hard Rain: ISBN 0399150528 (0-399-15052-8)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group - Hard Rain: ISBN 0451212460 (0-451-21246-0)
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- Hard Rain: ISBN 0718145585 (0-7181-4558-5)
Killing Rainby Barry EislerISBN 0451412184 (0-451-41218-4)
Softcover, Onyx Books
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The Last Assassinby Barry EislerISBN 0141025948 (0-14-102594-8)
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One Last Killby Barry EislerISBN 014102593X (0-14-102593-X)
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Rain Fallby Barry EislerISBN 014101010X (0-14-101010-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rain Fall'Book summary:John Rain, a Japanese American konketsu, or half-breed, learned his lethal trade as a member of the U.S. Special Forces. Although tortured by memories of atrocities he committed in Vietnam, he has become a paid assassin, a solitary man who lives in the shadows and trusts no one, even those who pay extraordinary sums for his ability to make murder look like natural death. But the aftermath of an otherwise routine hit on a government bureaucrat brings Rain to the attention of two men he knows from the old days in Vietnam: a friend who's now a Tokyo cop and an enemy who betrayed Rain long ago and is now the CIA's station chief in Japan. Like the gangster who hired Rain to kill Yasuhiro Kawamura, they want something the dead man had--a computer disk containing proof of high-level corruption, information that could destroy Japan's ruling political coalition. The search for the disk leads them to a woman Rain has come to love, a talented young jazz musician who also happens to be Kawamura's daughter. In this taut, brilliantly paced debut thriller, set in a vividly rendered Tokyo, the author manages an unlikely feat; he earns the reader's sympathy and concern for his protagonist, an amoral assassin who is one of most compelling characters in recent crime fiction. --Jane Adams [via]
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Rain Stormby Barry EislerISBN 0451215508 (0-451-21550-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rain Storm'Book summary:[via]Barry Eisler has given us a new hero - Japanese-American John Rain, the cynical, romantic, conscientious assassin - one of the most clever and vibrant protagonists we've seen in years. In this new novel, Rain has fled to Brazil to escape the killing business and the enemies encircling him. But his knack for making death seem to have been from "natural causes" and his ability to operate unnoticed in Asia continue to create unwelcome demand for his services. His old employer, the CIA, persuades him to take on a high-risk assignment: a ruthless arms dealer operating in Southeast Asia." The upside? Financial, of course, along with the continued chimera of moral redemption. But first, Rain will have to survive the downside: a second assassin homing in on the target; the target's consort, an alluring woman with an agenda of her own; and the possibility that the entire mission is nothing but an elaborate setup. From the gorgeous beaches of Rio to the glitzy casinos of Macau to the gritty back streets of Hong Kong and Kowloon, Rain becomes a reluctant player in an international game far deadlier and more insidious than any he has encountered before.
Requiem for an Assassinby Barry EislerISBN 0451412575 (0-451-41257-5)
Softcover, Onyx Books
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