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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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Fans of that special subset of spy thriller that grafts psychic wounds onto a James Bond-style secret agent cum hit man will find Eisler's first novel right up their dark alley. Hero John Rain makes his living orchestrating the deaths of government officials so they look natural; the first hit in the novel shows Rain planting a microchip on the back of his target, a public works director, in the middle of a crowded Tokyo subway train--the microchip orders the man's pacemaker to malfunction. Rain, as the reader learns over and over again throughout the book, is isolated and alienated--he is ainoko, a mix of American and Japanese parents, and is traumatized by his "half-breed" status and by his experiences in Vietnam and Cambodia. The book is weak in characterization-- Rain is a Bond without charm or depth, whiningly adolescent in his constant reiteration of his problems. But plot and procedure are real standouts here. Rain's killing of the government worker leads him to a coven of agents trying to extract explosive information from the worker's beautiful daughter. And Eisler provides plenty of fascinating detail about the new technologies involved in secret-agent tracking and surveillance. A perfect subway read for spy-story addicts. Connie Fletcher
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If you like Jack Reacher, you will also fall for John Rain. Great thriller with nice surprises and a good deadcount. You will enjoy reading this on planes or trains and will not want to arrive at your destination before you have finished reading. A real page turner.
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Almost. The plot is somewhat less twisted than that of "The Ninja" or "The Miko", but it is well spun and should easily satify even very demanding readers. Eisler paints a vivid picture of contemporary Japanese politics, culture and sub-culture. Unsurprisingly, it bears strong resemblance to Lustbader's novels (not because he copied it, presumably, but because he identified similar traits). All in all Eisler continues the Ninja's "tradition", although I found his writing more succinct and fast paced than Lustbader's (perhaps at the expense of a more elaborate and more discriptive style). A definitive recommendation, which also applies to the sequel "Hard Rain".
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It is not recommended at all. Who ever said this is like Reacher is wrong and misleading. The book is not worth spending of time and money. Incoherent, and the hero is childish in chaacter and unbelievable in behavior. This is a cartoon of a book, equally so all other books for this ''writer''.
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