Rain FallEnthusiastic publishers around the world have become enthralled by John Rain, a strikingly fresh new thriller hero destined to be one of the most talked-about of the season. Born of an American mother and a Japanese father, Rain is a businessman based in Tokyo, living a life of meticulously planned anonymity. There are few who know who he is or what he does. Trained by the U.S. Special Forces and a veteran of Vietnam, he is a cool, self-contained loner-and he has built a steady business over the past twenty-five years specializing in death by "natural causes." After the assassination of a government official in a crowded subway car, Rain's carefully ordered world comes under siege. Agents within and without the international intelligence communities have been circling him for some time and, having connected him to the subway incident, may now have the scent they have been seeking. At the same time, Rain is drawn outside his private world by an alluring jazz pianist, the dead man's daughter, who is the key to the very secrets her father was trying to reveal when he died. |
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User Review - kmajort - LibraryThingMore of a 3.5. Good but not overly engaging for me, perhaps I need to look at #2 of series (obviously a lot of folks like this series)it just didn't click. I did like the not-set-in-America factor ... Read full review
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User Review - bcrowl399 - LibraryThingI liked this book and I think I will read more from this series. I like John Rain, despite his harsh occupation, if you can call it that and despite his flaws. He carries a lot of baggage from Vietnam ... Read full review
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| Title | Rain Fall Book 1 of John Rain Thriller Series Volume 1 of John Rain, Barry Eisler |
| Author | Barry Eisler |
| Publisher | G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2002 |
| ISBN | 0399149104, 9780399149108 |
| Length | 305 pages |
| Subjects | › Fiction / Literary |
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