Winner Take All (John Rain Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.68 (505 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1501219901 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 191 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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Previously published as Rain Storm and Choke PointJohn Rain has disappeared to Brazil to escape the killing business and the enemies encircling him in Japan. But the CIA isn't willing to lose its premier "natural causes" contract killer, and they force Rain to take on a high-risk assignment: eliminate a ruthless arms dealer operating in Southeast Asia.The upside? Financial, of course, along with the ongoing chimera of moral redemption. But first, Rain will have to survive the downside: a second assassin zeroing in on the target; the target's consort, an alluring and dangerous woman with an agenda of her own; the possibility that the entire mission is nothing but an elaborate setup. From the gorgeous beaches of Rio to the glitzy casinos of Macau to the gritty back streets of Hong Kong and Kowloon, Rain becomes a reluctant player in an international game far deadlier and more insidious than any he has encountered before."In his superb thriller series featuring charismatic Japanese-American assassin John Rain, author Barry Eisler serves up steamy foreign locales, stunning action and enough high-tech w
Another fantastic novel with John Rain who is again hired to take care of a bad guy using his special skills. After I read the first book in (Rain Fall) this series I have become an enthusiastic fan of the Assassin for hire John Rain. I like to read a series in the order they were published in order to better understand and follow future novels. I just completed (Rain Storm by Barry Eisler) the third book in this . Do Not Start to Read This Book J.S. Bach Fan Unless you have time to finish it!!I never expected so much clever situations and interesting dialogue. The author does such a great job of having a wide palate of writing styles. Beautifully written and tense.. "Thriller lovers give thanks" according to Reacher Fan 1909. For those of you who like the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child, give Eisler's John Rain a try. Introduced in Eisler's first book in the series, Rain Fall, John Rain has left his beloved Japan and is now living as quietly as possible in Brazil. His background as a half Japanese half American in the US milit
The two complement each other like black and white. Yet what truly sets Eisler's series apart is its near total absence of formula and stereotype. All rights reserved.. Along the way, the usually detached hero shows a new dimension—the possible seeds of a fascinating friendship with a fellow hit man, a life-of-the-party type named Dox. Rain takes the job, promising himself it will be his last, and travels to Macao, a Portuguese peninsula and islands off the coast of China, to begin tracking Belghazi. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. The action shifts back and forth between Macao, Hong Kong and Tokyo, each setting rendered in intimately warm detail, before catapulting to a chilling finale in which Rain narrowly escapes bleeding to death on a shipping dock. In the third installment (follo