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| Title | : | A Clean Kill in Tokyo (John Rain #1) |
| Author | : | Barry Eisler |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Book Edition | : | New Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 363 pages |
| Published | : | July 1st 2002 by Barry Eisler |
| Categories | : | Thriller. Fiction. Mystery. Crime |
Barry Eisler
Kindle Edition | Pages: 363 pages Rating: 3.96 | 15326 Users | 884 Reviews
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Previously published as Rain Fall (John Rain, #1) 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.
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| Original Title: | Rain Fall ASIN B00BC8SPVK |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | John Rain #1 |
| Characters: | John Rain, Midori Kawamura |
| Setting: | Tokyo(Japan) Japan |
| Literary Awards: | Gumshoe Award Nominee for Best First Novel (2003) |
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Ratings: 3.96 From 15326 Users | 884 ReviewsPiece Based On Books A Clean Kill in Tokyo (John Rain #1)
This is the first book in the John Rain series. I really enjoyed the Japanese setting of the story, and the "stuck-between-two-cultures" battle of Rain. I am looking forward to reading other books in the series.**4.5 stars**This book blew me away.Im not fond of assassins as main characters so normally I wouldnt have picked up this book. But it was on sale at Audible and I liked the narrator so I decided to give it a try. And oh boy, Im so glad I did. The story starts a bit slowly but then it gets tremendously exciting, extremely sad and very thought provoking. Why would a man like John Rain who not a bad person choose a life like this? The answer is not simple or even logical but its heartbreaking.
I really enjoyed this book, so much that I started it this morning and finished it this afternoon.A thriller with a difference, the main character is an assassin working in Tokyo. The author makes the assassin likeable and very intriguing in a fast paced thriller. I am interested to read that many of the reviewers on Goodreads consider that this series gets better so I intend to read more.
**4.5 stars**This book blew me away.Im not fond of assassins as main characters so normally I wouldnt have picked up this book. But it was on sale at Audible and I liked the narrator so I decided to give it a try. And oh boy, Im so glad I did. The story starts a bit slowly but then it gets tremendously exciting, extremely sad and very thought provoking. Why would a man like John Rain who not a bad person choose a life like this? The answer is not simple or even logical but its heartbreaking.
I'm a little torn because 3 stars might indicate I like the book when it would be more accurate to say I don't intensely dislike it, thus 2. There are some interesting parts in this read. Unfortunately between these parts there a long sections that are not only fairly uninteresting but often have little or nothing to do with the story. There are sections like "the surveillance was going nowhere so..." and we get a section where he sits in a coffee shop and "remembers". We need you see to get an
John Rain is a mercurial figure. A man of Japanese-American descent, who has lived in both American & Japan, but does not feel he fits in either place. In fact, the only place he seems to fit in is in the shadows. Having experienced harrowing firefights in the jungles of Vietnam during America's most unpopular war, Rain honed his skills as a fighter. After the war he moves to Japan where he continues training in martial arts, and putting his skills as a professional soldier into that of an
#25 - 2010.Recommended by Matt. American born, half-Japanese, John Rain is a professional hit man with a strict set of rules for his targets: no women or children, only principles in a dispute. He specializes in "natural causes" deaths and has just pulled one off while giving us a bit of back story. Interestingly as the story goes on through fascinating twists and turns, we are not asked to find John a sympathetic character. We learn more of his story so that his life's work makes more sense but
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