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What makes a legendary assassin? For John Rain, it was the lessons of love, war, and betrayal he learned in Tokyo in 1972. Fresh from the killing fields of Southeast Asia, Rain works as a bagman under the watchful eye of his CIA handler, delivering cash to corrupt elements of the Japanese government. But when a delivery goes violently wrong, Rain finds himself in the crosshairs of Japan’s most powerful yakuza clan. To survive, Rain strikes a desperate deal with his handler: take out a high-profile target in the Japanese government in exchange for the intel he needs to eliminate his would-be executioners. As Rain plays cat and mouse with the yakuza and struggles to learn his new role as contract killer, he also becomes entangled with Sayaka, a tough, beautiful ethnic Korean woman confined to a wheelchair. But the demands of his dark work are at odds with the longings of his heart—and with Sayaka’s life in the balance, Rain will have to make a terrible choice.
Previously published as Rain Fall Name: John Rain. Vocation: Assassin. Specialty: Natural Causes. Base of operations: Tokyo. Availability: Worldwide. Half American, half Japanese, expert in both worlds but at home in neither, John Rain is the best killer money can buy. You tell him who. You tell him where. He doesn’t care about why… Until he gets involved with Midori Kawamura, a beautiful jazz pianist—and the daughter of his latest kill. A Clean Kill in Tokyo was previously published as Rain Fall, the first in the bestselling John Rain assassin series.
Previously published as Hard Rain and Blood from Blood All John Rain wants is to get out of the killing business. But with his discretion, his reliability, and his unique talent for death by “natural causes,” no one is willing to let him just retire. So when an old nemesis from the Japanese national police force comes to him with a new job—eliminate Murakami, a killer even more fearsome than Rain himself—he can’t refuse. Aided by an achingly desirable half Brazilian, half Japanese exotic dancer he knows he shouldn’t trust, Rain pursues his quarry through underground no-holds-barred fight clubs, mobbed-up hostess bars, and finally into the heart of a shadow war between the CIA and the yakuza. It’s a war Rain can’t win, but also one he can’t afford to lose—a war where the distinctions between friend and foe and truth and deceit are as murky as the rain-slicked streets of Tokyo. A Lonely Resurrection was previously published as Hard Rain in the US and Blood From Blood in the UK, the second in the bestselling John Rain assassin series.
Previously published as Requiem for an Assassin Hunted and finally cornered, John Rain faces his deadliest enemy ever: himself. For Rain, “the most charismatic assassin since James Bond” (San Francisco Chronicle), getting out of the life was never going to be easy. But with a new identity in Paris, and the help of his lover, Mossad agent Delilah, he was beginning to leave the killing business behind. And then he receives a message from rogue CIA operative Jim Hilger: We have your friend Dox. Do as we tell you, or he dies. For a professional like Rain, the choice ought to be easy: do the job—a series of three hits—and save his friend and partner. But how does Rain know Hilger won’t kill Dox, anyway, once the assignment is complete? How does he know each of the hits isn’t simultaneously a setup for Rain himself? Most of all, how can he control the killing rage Hilger’s lethal game of extortion reignites inside him? From the deceptively tranquil beaches of Bali, to the backstreets and boulevards of Paris, to the urban canyons of Silicon Valley and New York and the old killing fields of Vietnam, Rain must grapple with his age, his enemies, and, most of all, with the killer inside himself in a battle not even Rain can hope to survive intact. The Killer Ascendant was previously published as Requiem for an Assassin, the sixth in the bestselling John Rain assassin series.
Previously published as The Last Assassin Even for an average citizen, a love triangle is dangerous business. For assassin John Rain—”one of the most compelling lead characters in the genre” (USA Today)—it’s going to be downright deadly. When Rain learns that his former lover, Midori, has been raising their child in New York, Rain senses a chance for reconciliation, perhaps even for redemption. But Midori and the child are being watched by Rain’s enemies, and Rain’s sudden appearance puts them in terrible danger. To save them, Rain is forced to use the same deadly talents he had been hoping to leave behind. With the help of Tatsu, his one-time nemesis in the Japanese FBI; and Dox, the former Marine sniper whose good ol’ boy persona masks a killer as deadly as Rain himself, Rain races against time to bring his enemies into the open and eliminate them forever. Extremis was previously published as The Last Assassin, the fifth in the bestselling John Rain assassin series.
Previously published as Killing Rain and One Last Kill After nearly dying while taking out a target in Hong Kong, Rain has a new employer, The Mossad, which wants him to fix a “problem” in Manila. He also has a new partner, Dox, whose good-ol’-boy persona masks a sniper as deadly as Rain himself. And he has a new hope: that by using his talents in the service of something good, he might atone for all the lives he has taken. But when Rain’s conscience causes him to botch the Manila hit, he finds out the next problem The Mossad wants fixed is him. Is Delilah, his Mossad lover, coming to help him? Or was she sent to finish him off? Redemption Games was previously published as Killing Rain in the US and One Last Kill in the UK, the fourth in the bestselling John Rain assassin series.
Returning to Tokyo in 1982 after a decade of mercenary work in the Philippines, a young John Rain learns that the killing business is now controlled by Victor, a half-Russian, half-Japanese sociopath who has ruthlessly eliminated all potential challengers. Victor gives Rain a choice: kill a government minister or die a grisly death. But the best route to the minister is through his gorgeous Italian wife, Maria, a route that puts Rain on a collision course not only with Victor but with the shadowy forces behind the Russian's rise to dominance—and the longings of Rain's own conflicted heart.It's a battle between kingpin and newcomer, master and apprentice, a zero-sum contest that can only end with one man dead and the other the world's foremost assassin.
In Silicon Valley, the eccentric inventor of a new encryption application is murdered in an apparent drug deal.In Istanbul, a cynical undercover operator receives a frantic call from his estranged brother, a patent lawyer who believes he is the next victim.And on the sun-drenched slopes of Sand Hill Road, Silicon Valley's nerve center of money and technology, old family hurts sting anew as two brothers who share nothing but blood and bitterness wage a desperate battle against a faceless enemy.Alex Treven has sacrificed everything to achieve his ambition: making partner in his high-tech law firm. But then the inventor of a technology Alex is banking on is murdered... and the patent examiner who reviewed it dies... and Alex himself narrowly escapes an attack in his own home. Off balance, out of options, and running out of time, he knows the one person who can help him is the last person he'd ever ask: his brother.Ben Treven is a Military Liaison Element, an elite undercover soldier paid to "find, fix, and finish" high-value targets in America's Global War on Terror. Disenchanted with what he sees as America's culture of denial and decadence, Ben lives his detached life in the shadows because the black ops world is all he really knows-and because other than Alex, who he hasn't spoken to since their mother died, his family is long gone.But blood is thicker than water, and when he receives Alex's frantic call, Ben hurries to San Francisco to help him. Only then does Alex reveal that there's another player who knows of the technology: Sarah Hosseini, a young Iranian American lawyer who Alex has long secretly desired... and who Ben immediately distrusts. As these three radically different people struggle to identify the forces attempting to silence them, Ben and Alex are forced to examine the events that drove them apart-even as Sarah's presence, and her own secret wants, deepens the fault line between them.Fault Line centers on a conspiracy that has spun out of the shadows and into the streets of America, a conspiracy that can be stopped only by three people-three people with different worldviews, different grievances, different motives. To survive the forces arrayed against them, they'll first have to survive each other."The first blogosphere thriller... Eisler's novel, which turns entirely on a super-secret assassinations program, is looking less like fiction and more like the work of someone who has a firm grip on what's really happening."-Scott Horton, Harper's Magazine
Torture.Ghost detainees.And a massive cover-up that continues even today.Marooned in a Manila jail after a bar fight fatality, black ops soldier Ben Treven gets a visit from his former commander, who explains the price of Ben's release: find and eliminate Larison, a rogue operator from Ben's unit who has stolen ninety-two torture tapes from the CIA and is using them to blackmail the U.S. government.But other players are after the tapes, too, and to find Larison, Ben will have to survive CIA hit teams, Blackwater mercenaries, and the long reach of the White House. He'll also have to find a way to handle Paula Lanier, a smart, sexy FBI agent who has her own reasons for wanting the tapes and is determined to get them before Ben does. With the stakes this high, everyone has an angle-everyone but Ben, who will have to find the right alliance if he wants to stay alive."A thrill-seeker's book... Perhaps most interesting of all, the story is based on true events: 92 missing CIA interrogation tapes that allegedly included recordings of prisoners being tortured. Eisler's latest offering doesn't reinvent the genre, but it certainly pumps it full of adrenaline."-The Daily Beast
An Amazon Charts, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal bestseller.A fast-paced, page-turning novel of betrayal, vengeance, and depraved secrets in high places from the New York Times bestselling author of the John Rain and Livia Lone series.When a joint FBI–Seattle Police investigation of an international child pornography ring gets too close to certain powerful people, sex-crimes detective Livia Lone becomes the target of a hit that barely goes awry—a hit that had been offered to John Rain, a retired specialist in “natural causes.”Suspecting the FBI itself was behind the attack, Livia reaches out to former Marine sniper Dox. Together, they assemble an ad hoc group to identify and neutralize the threat. There’s Rain. Rain’s estranged lover, Mossad agent and honeytrap specialist Delilah. And black ops soldiers Ben Treven and Daniel Larison, along with their former commander, SpecOps legend Colonel Scot “Hort” Horton.Moving from Japan to Seattle to DC to Paris, the group fights a series of interlocking conspiracies, each edging closer and closer to the highest levels of the US government.With uncertain loyalties, conflicting agendas, and smoldering romantic entanglements, these operators will have a hard time forming a team. But in a match as uneven as this one, a collective of killers might be even better.
“An absolutely first-rate thriller.” —New York Times Book ReviewSeattle PD sex-crimes detective Livia Lone knows the monsters she hunts. Sold by her Thai parents along with her little sister, Nason; abused by the men who trafficked them; marooned in America…the only thing that kept Livia alive as a teenager was her determination to find Nason.Livia has never stopped looking. And she copes with her failure to protect her sister by doing everything she can to put predators in prison.Or, when that fails, by putting them in the ground.But when a fresh lead offers new hope of finding Nason and the men who trafficked them both, Livia will have to go beyond just being a cop. Beyond even being a vigilante. She’ll have to relive the horrors of the past. Take on one of the most powerful men in the US government. And uncover a conspiracy of almost unimaginable evil.In every way, it’s an unfair fight. But Livia has two advantages: her unending love for Nason—And a lifelong lust for vengeance.
Knowledge is power…and they know everything. NSA director Theodore Anders has a simple goal: collect every phone call, email, and keystroke tapped on the Internet. He knows unlimited surveillance is the only way to keep America safe. Evelyn Gallagher doesn’t care much about any of that. She just wants to keep her head down and manage the NSA’s camera network and facial recognition program so she can afford private school for her deaf son, Dash. But when Evelyn discovers the existence of an NSA program code-named God’s Eye, and connects it with the mysterious deaths of a string of journalists and whistle-blowers, her doubts put her and Dash in the crosshairs of a pair of government assassins: Delgado, a sadistic bomb maker and hacker; and Manus, a damaged giant of a man who until now has cared for nothing beyond protecting the director. Within an elaborate game of political blackmail, terrorist provocations, and White House scheming, a global war is being fought—a war between those desperate to keep the state’s darkest secrets and those intent on revealing them. A war that Evelyn will need all her espionage training and savvy to survive. A war in which the director has the ultimate informational advantage: The God’s Eye View.
Pioggia Nera Su Tokyo: Romanzo con John Rain
Barry Eisler
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2016
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John Rain si operato agli occhi per assomigliare ancora di pi a un orientale. Durante la guerra del Vietnam ha lavorato per la CIA. Tornato in Giappone, diventato un killer. Lavora su commissione. Non importa chi lo paga, la sola cosa che conta andare a segno. La sua specialit omicidi che sembrano morti naturali utilizzando tecnologie d'avanguardia. Riceve l'incarico di eliminare Yasuhito kawamura, un corrotto funzionario governativo: lo segue in metropolitana e grazie a un sofisticato sistema elettronico gli provoca un arresto cardiaco e la morte. La settimana successiva incontra per caso la figlia della sua vittima, Midori, una giovane e bella pianista jazz. Ma nel frattempo qualcuno sta iniziando a cercarlo.
Alba Nera Su Tokyo: Romanzo con John Rain, Traduzione dall'inglese di Gianni Pannofino
Barry Eisler
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2016
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John Rain, padre giapponese e madre americana, un reduce del Vietnam, esperto di arti marziali. Veloce e silenzioso, prudente ed efficace, ha imparato a uccidere senza lasciare tracce: per le autorit i suoi omicidi sono incidenti o morti naturali. Ora ha bruciato le sue coperture e c' il rischio che la CIA - con cui ha qualche conto in sospeso - si metta sulle sue tracce. Si rifugiato a Osaka, dove per lo scova Tatsu, veterano del Keisatsucho, la polizia giapponese. Ha bisogno di un favore, uno di quei favori che richiedono le doti di un impeccabile professionista. Ma John Rain ormai troppo pericoloso: abilissimo e conosce troppi segreti. Si ritrova cos cacciatore e preda, al centro di una faida tra i servizi segreti americani e la yakuza giapponese, in un mondo dove la corruzione la regola. Alba nera su Tokyo mostra come i servizi segreti usino le nuove tecnologie per rintracciare, sorvegliare ed eliminare i loro obiettivi, in un Oriente molto lontano da ogni clich .
Pagato Per Uccidere: Romanzo con John Rain, Traduzione dall'inglese di Gianni Pannofino
Barry Eisler
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2016
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John Rain killer di professione, non pu dire di no alla CIA. Aveva deciso di chiudere con la morte ed era fuggito in Brasile per far perdere le proprie tracce. Ma la sua abilit nel mascherare gli omicidi da morti naturali e la capacit di agire inosservato sullo scenario asiatico l'hanno reso indispensabile. L'incarico di quelli che scottano, ad altissimo rischio: eliminare Achille Belghazi, spietato trafficante d'armi, implicato nel terrorismo islamico in Medio Oriente. Rain accetta, ma promette a s stesso che questa sar l'ultima missione. Quando arriva a Macao, sulle tracce di Belghazi, capisce che qualcun altro ha preso di mira il suo bersaglio. Ma per chi lavora? E che cosa nasconde la bella moglie della vittima designata? Possibile che l'intera operazione sia una messinscena? Dalle luci scintillanti dei casin di Macao, ai vicoli bui di Hong Kong, Rain diventa la pedina di un gioco troppo insidioso, dove il confine tra cacciatore e preda sottile e pericoloso.
La Via Del Samurai: Romanzo con John Rain
Barry Eisler
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2016
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John Rain, killer di professione esperto in arti marziali, sa bene che dopo aver ucciso non si pi uguali a prima. La sua specialit omicidi che sembrano morti naturali, utilizzando tecnologie d'avanguardia. Nel tempo Rain ha imparato a convivere con la morte e a non farsi scrupoli. A patto, per , di rispettare tre regole fondamentali: non uccidere donne e bambini, non colpire uomini innocenti e mantenere l'anonimato. Questa volta ad avere bisogno di lui il Mossad. L'incarico di quelli che scottano: eliminare Levi Manheim, un israeliano corrotto che vende ai terroristi islamici informazioni preziose. Per i servizi segreti israeliani fondamentale che l'omicidio avvenga nella pi totale discrezione, senza lasciare tracce. Un compito impossibile per chiunque, ma non per Rain. Eppure, dopo aver raggiunto il bersaglio a Manila, qualcosa va storto: all'improvviso irrompe sulla scena il figlio di Manheim. Rain ha un attimo di esitazione, che si rivela fatale. Un fallimento, ma soprattutto l'inizio di grossi guai. Braccato dalla CIA e dal Mossad, Rain capisce che ogni sua mossa potr essere l'ultima. L'unica in grado di aiutarlo sembra essere Deliah, l'affascinante agente israeliano che era stata la sua amante. A meno che dietro il suo riavvicinamento non ci sia la volont di ucciderlo...
La Furia Del Samurai: Romanzo con John Rain
Barry Eisler
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2016
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John Rain, killer di professione esperto in arti marziali, vuole cominciare una nuova vita. Lontano dalla morte, lontano dagli omicidi, lontano dalla malavita. Ha deciso di chiudere con la violenza, le fughe, i depistaggi. Non pu pi permetterselo. Non ora che ha scoperto di avere un figlio. Il piccolo vive a New York, insieme alla madre Midori, ex fidanzate di Rain. Queste finalmente l'occasione di poterle dimostrare di essere un uomo diverso. Ma le cose non sono cos semplid come sembrano. Perch la donna e il bambino non sono soli. Sono sorvegliati, minuto dopo minuto, proprio dai peggiori nemici d Rain, i vertici della pericolosa mafia giapponese.