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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
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Set in a memorable noir version of Tokyo (jazz clubs, whiskey bars, "love hotels"), Eisler's rich and atmospheric debut thriller winds its way around the city's extensive rail system and its upscale Western boutiques Mulberry, Paul Stuart, Nicole Farhi London, Le Ciel Bleu, J.M. Weston. The author an American lawyer who has lived and worked in Japan brings to life a complex and most interesting hero: John Rain, a hard and resourceful man in his 40s with an American mother, a Japanese father, a childhood spent in both countries and a stretch with Special Operations in Vietnam that literally made him what he is today a highly paid freelance assassin. The book begins with Rain arranging the death (on the subway) of a prominent government figure by short-circuiting his pacemaker and making it look like the man died of a heart attack. But Rain's relatively simple life suddenly becomes very complicated when he finds himself involved both romantically and professionally with the dead man's lovely daughter, Midori, a talented jazz pianist. Formidable adversaries a nasty CIA agent from John's Vietnam days; a right-wing guru who uses Shinto priests as spies and yakuza gangsters as enforcers; a tireless old cop seem intent on exposing Rain and eliminating Midori. There are several excellent action scenes, an amusing and touching young computer nerd who is Rain's only reliable ally and, most of all, an intriguing and intimate evocation of Japan's intense love-hate relationship with America.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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HARRY CUT THROUGH the morning rush-hour crowd like a shark fin through water. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Blue Note, Crazy Jake, New York, Telephone Man, John Rain, United States, Las Chicas, Liberal Democratic Party, Kawamura Midori, Akasaka Mitsuke, Paul Stuart, Bill Evans, Studio Alta, Thunder Blaster, Tokyo Station, William Holtzer, Cao Lila, Hibiya Station, Ishikura Tatsuhiko, John John, Military Assistance Command, Shibuya Station, Super Ball, Uncle Sam, Yamaoto Toshi New!
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HARRY CUT THROUGH the morning rush-hour crowd like a shark fin through water. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Blue Note, Crazy Jake, New York, Telephone Man, John Rain, United States, Las Chicas, Liberal Democratic Party, Kawamura Midori, Akasaka Mitsuke, Paul Stuart, Bill Evans, Studio Alta, Thunder Blaster, Tokyo Station, William Holtzer, Cao Lila, Hibiya Station, Ishikura Tatsuhiko, John John, Military Assistance Command, Shibuya Station, Super Ball, Uncle Sam, Yamaoto Toshi New!
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- Hard Rain (John Rain Thrillers) by Barry Eisler on page 367
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- Autumn Lightning: The Education of an American Samurai by Dave Lowry on page 365
- Hard Rain (John Rain Thrillers) by Barry Eisler in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
- The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury in Back Matter
- Book Finds, 3rd Edition: How to Find, Buy, and Sell Used and Rare Books by Ian C. Ellis on page 288
- The Last Assassin (John Rain Thrillers) by Barry Eisler in Front Matter
- Killing Rain (John Rain Thrillers) by Barry Eisler in Front Matter
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