Rain Storm
New York: Signet, 2005. First Signet Printing [stated]. Mass market paperback. [8], 375, [1] pages. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Minor tear to second stiff cover page. Barry Mark Eisler (born 1964) is a best-selling American novelist. He is the author of two thriller series, the first featuring anti-hero John Rain, a half-Japanese, half-American former soldier turned freelance assassin, and a second featuring black operations soldier Ben Treven. Eisler also writes about politics and language on his blog Heart of the Matter, and at CHUD, Firedoglake, Huffington Post, Smirking Chimp, and Truthout. Eisler joined the CIA, where he held a covert position with the Directorate of Operations. In 1992, he resigned after becoming disillusioned. In 1994, he moved to the San Francisco area to work for a law firm's technology licensing division, then left to work in Japan for Matsushita. In 2003 he sold the rights to his debut novel, Rain Fall, the first of his series featuring John Rain. In March 2011, he walked away from a reported half million dollar advance from St. Martin's Press to go the self-publishing route pioneered by Joe Konrath and others. He then agreed to publish the seventh John Rain novel, The Detachment, under Amazon Publishing's Thomas & Mercer imprint. After terminating his previous publishing contracts and regaining his rights, Eisler changed the titles and covers on all the Rain books. Barry Eisler has given us a new hero - Japanese-American John Rain, the cynical, romantic, conscientious assassin - one of the most clever and vibrant protagonists we've seen in years. In this new novel, Rain has fled to Brazil to escape the killing business and the enemies encircling him. But his knack for making death seem to have been from "natural causes" and his ability to operate unnoticed in Asia continue to create unwelcome demand for his services. His old employer, the CIA, persuades him to take on a high-risk assignment: a ruthless arms dealer operating in Southeast Asia." The upside? Financial, of course, along with the continued chimera of moral redemption. But first, Rain will have to survive the downside: a second assassin homing in on the target; the target's consort, an alluring woman with an agenda of her own; and 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. Condition: Good.
Keywords: Assassin, CIA, Japanese-American, John Rain, Arms Dealer, Terrorism, Rio de Janerio, Macau, Gambling, Casino, Hong Kong, Kowloon, Central Intelligence Agency, Spies, Secret Agents, Mystery
ISBN: 0451215508
[Book #72391]
Price: $7.50