Author: Barry Eisler Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 9780451209153 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 388
Book Description
A Japanese-American assassin who specializes in "natural cause" killings finds his carefully ordered world coming under siege in the wake of a government official's murder, with which he has been falsely connected, a situation that is complicated by his attraction to the victim's daugher. Reprint.
Author: Barry Eisler Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 9780451212467 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 390
Book Description
Trying to end his career as a hired assassin, Japanese American John Rain goes underground, only to be approached by Japanese FBI agent Tatsu to eliminate a sociopathic killer who could tip the balance of power in Japan toward the mafia. Reprint.
Author: Barry Eisler Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub ISBN: 9781482735895 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 274
Book Description
Previously published as Rain Fall Name: John Rain. Vocation: Assassin. Specialty: Natural Causes. Base of operations: Tokyo. Availability: Worldwide. Half American, half Japanese, expert in both worlds but at home in neither, John Rain is the best killer money can buy. You tell him who. You tell him where. He doesn't care about why... Until he gets involved with Midori Kawamura, a beautiful jazz pianist-and the daughter of his latest kill. "Eisler provides a cracklingly good yarn, well written, deftly plotted, and surprisingly appealing... Thomas Perry and Lawrence Block need not retire their hit men quite yet, but Eisler is clearly a challenger." -Boston Globe Includes a note from the author introducing the new edition.
Author: Barry Eisler Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 9780451412409 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 388
Book Description
Hoping to reconcile with the mother of his child, reluctant contract killer John Rain inadvertently places them in the path of dangerous enemies and is forced to recruit the help of his nemesis from the Japanese FBI and an ex-Marine sniper. Reprint.
Author: Barry Eisler Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 9780399154263 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 374
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Blackmailed by a rogue CIA operative to carry out three assassinations or see his best friend murdered, reluctant killer-for-hire John Rain struggles with numerous moral dilemmas as well as his growing certainty that the operative is hiding a more sinister agenda. 125,000 first printing.
Author: Barry Eisler Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 9780451215505 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 390
Book Description
Accepting an assignment from the CIA to take out an arms dealer who is supplying criminal groups in Southeast Asia, assassin-for-hire John Rain finds the job compromised by a rival assassin and the fear that he is being set up. Reprint.
Author: Barry Eisler Publisher: ISBN: 9781477824467 Category : Americans Languages : en Pages : 0
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Returning to Tokyo in 1982 after a decade of mercenary work in the Philippines, John Rain learns that the killing business is now controlled by a half-Russian, half-Japanese sociopath who wants John to kill a government minister or die a grisly death.
Author: Yu Miri Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0593187520 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 193
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WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's busiest train stations. Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Emperor, his life is tied by a series of coincidences to the Imperial family and has been shaped at every turn by modern Japanese history. But his life story is also marked by bad luck, and now, in death, he is unable to rest, doomed to haunt the park near Ueno Station in Tokyo. Kazu's life in the city began and ended in that park; he arrived there to work as a laborer in the preparations for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and ended his days living in the vast homeless village in the park, traumatized by the destruction of the 2011 tsunami and shattered by the announcement of the 2020 Olympics. Through Kazu's eyes, we see daily life in Tokyo buzz around him and learn the intimate details of his personal story, how loss and society's inequalities and constrictions spiraled towards this ghostly fate, with moments of beauty and grace just out of reach. A powerful masterwork from one of Japan's most brilliant outsider writers, Tokyo Ueno Station is a book for our times and a look into a marginalized existence in a shiny global megapolis.
Author: Barry Eisler
Author: Barry Eisler
Author: Barry Eisler
Author: Barry Eisler
Author: Barry Eisler
Author: Barry Eisler
Author: Barry Eisler
Author: Barry Eisler
Author: Yu Miri
Author: Barry Eisler