| View Larger Image | Rain Fall | Mass Market Paperbackby Barry Eisler (Author)
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| | Binding: | Mass Market Paperback | | Publisher: | Signet | | Edition: | Firstth Edition | | Page Count: | 384 Pages | | Publication Date: | July 01, 2003 | | Sales Rank: | 70,661th |
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Product Description
Meet John Rain. Assassin. He follows his own code - he needs no one, trusts no one - until betrayal transforms him from hunter into hunted and loner into loyal friend. Haunted by the past Rain kills to order and leaves no trace, but the death at his hand of an old man has unforeseen complications - and soon Rain is trying to protect not just his carefully preserved anonymity but his own life and those of the people he cares for. A stunning, page-turning reinvention of the hitman thriller, "Rain Fall" marks the introduction of a compelling new series character and major new thriller writing career. |
Amazon.com Review
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 |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 104 reviews)
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Excellent, but had a major technical flaw by Harvey A. Lewis (Greenwood, AR United States)  4 Stars
August 06, 2009
The holy grail of the book is a "disk" that contains enough blackmail evidence to control half the politicians in Japan, but supposedly you cannot copy it, or transmit the contents. Anyone with the slightest bit of computer knowledge knows that if you can read the disk, you can copy the disk. When you read it, you have copied it - into CPU memory, and once there you can do whatever you want with it.
The "uncopyable" disk drove a lot of the plot, so the flaw was not easily dismissed. I was constantly reminded that half the action was unnecessary.
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Fantastic start to a series by J. E. Hanko (LAKE GROVE, NY USA)  5 Stars
July 12, 2009
I actually read this book second in the John Rain series. I have read it twice and worth it's weight in gold. Barry Eisler developes the character slowly so you get to know the character a little at a time, and Mr Eisler knows of what he writes. The further you read into the series, you realize how well developed the character is. Action sequences are well written and yes there is romance too. If you like crime stories, or action I would suggest this series in a hearbeat, and this is the book to start it all.
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Good as New by Thomas o. Ritz (MI, USA) 5 Stars
July 04, 2009
This book is used but came to my in perfect shape!! I couldn't ask for more or better service !!!
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been there by P. Rose (Japan) 5 Stars
June 08, 2009
Excellent book, I currently live in the Tokyo area and this book was like walking the streets of real Tokyo.
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Rain Maker by C. Cressley (DC) 5 Stars
May 04, 2009
Absolutely, a spectacular book. The writing is clean, clear, and moves at a crisp attention grabbing pace. The characters are all believable and function in a real world.
The characters are all constructed extremely well and make you want to follow along for the ride. You will grudgingly like and admire the main character. I say grudgingly, because the main character is a killer. He has some huge faults. However, if you start reading knowing the book isn't a fairy tale, it won't be a big deal.
I will be buying all of Eisler's work.
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Suppose you had to kill three people to save your best friend’s life? For John Rain, it should be easy: three fast hits and disappear. But what if you figured your friend is probably going to die anyway? What if you started to think the whole thing was a setup? And what if you were afraid three was just the beginning? John Rain’s going to give it a shot.
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