Sicario: La venganza (Spanish Edition) [Hardcover]

Barry Eisler (Author), Marcelo Covian (Translator)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 30, 2005

John Rain, el hombre que mata a cambio de dinero pero mantiene unas rígidas normas que le impiden aceptar según qué encargos, se ha retirado a Osaka para esperar a que amainen las consecuencias de sus últimos trabajos. Sin embargo, pronto sera llamado de regreso a Tokio para que se encargue de una nueva víctima: un mafioso contrario a los intereses de los amigos de Rain. Como siempre, tendrá que parecer un accidente. Sin embargo, la muerte de este primer mafioso no hace sino despertar un reguero de pólvora en las amplísimas redes de la corrupción económica y política de Japón. En contra de su intanción, Rain no podrá retirarse y olvidarse de su trabajo durante un tiempo, sino que deberá seguir haciendo lo que ha hecho desde que terminó la guerra de Vietnam: matar, matar por encargo, y tratar al mismo tiempo de salvar su cada vez más amenazado entorno. Todo ello mientras le seguimos por prostíbulos, los clubes de jazz y los bares de Tokio en un deseperado periplo.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 400 pages
• Publisher: Roca Editorial; Tra edition (April 30, 2005)
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN-10: 8496284654
• ISBN-13: 978-8496284654
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,442,073 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It's in Spanish! The original in English is excellent., March 6, 2008

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This review is from: Sicario: La venganza (Spanish Edition) (Hardcover)

I like the English version of the book. No one told me this one was in Spanish. If you are a Spanish reader, you'd enjoy John Rain's adventure. Very insightful about real Japan, too. Almost all the places in the book actually exists in Japan -- so you can go check it out when you go visit. Rating I gave it 3 because -- it's in Spanish and I could not read in Spanish.

2 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Spanish, March 21, 2007

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This review is from: Sicario: La venganza (Spanish Edition) (Hardcover)

To the folks that don't know this is a translation into spanish: READ!

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Hardcover: 400 pages
Publisher: Roca Editorial; Translatio edition (April 30, 2005)
**********Language: Spanish******************

And the title "Scario": is that English, I think not. Pay attention!

They let these people vote? Unreal. . .

As far as the book is concerned, it's just another in a line-up of gimpy suspense/mystery who-done-it from a pop writer who would be better suited to writing for Law and Order SVU or another one of those cookie-cutter TV police dramas.

Not worth the money in Spanish or English, but I gave it 5 stars just to even out the two idiots who gave it 1 star based on it's translated LANGUAGE.