A Clean Kill in Tokyo (Previously Published as Rain Fall) (A John Rain Novel) - Kindle edition by Eisler, Barry. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading A Clean Kill in Tokyo (Previously Published as Rain Fall) (A John Rain Novel)/5(K). ― Barry Eisler, A Clean Kill in Tokyo. 0 likes. Like “When your sword meets that of your enemy, you can never waver, but must instead attack with the complete resolution of your whole body —Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings” ― Barry Eisler, A Clean Kill in Tokyo. · A CLEAN KILL IN TOKYO 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/5(6).
In Barry Eisler's a Clean Kill in Tokyo (aka Rain Fall), the first instalment in the John Rain thriller series, this would hook you on the first page and keep you in suspense right to the end. John Rain is a half-Japanese, half-American assasin, who's speciality was giving his victims "natural causes.". The atmosphere of modern Tokyo shines in RAIN FALL. I lived in Japan for seven years and read this book on a recent trip back. Barry Eisler, who was based in Japan for many years, worked for the US Government and earned his black belt at the Kodokan International Judo Center in Tokyo. Barry Eisler made his debut as a published author in with the novel Rain Fall (aka A Clean Kill in Tokyo). The novel began his John Rain series. Below is a list of Barry Eisler's books in order of when they were originally published: Publication Order of John Rain Books.
A clean kill in Tokyo was enjoyable. I’ve read some reviews which state the second half is significantly better than the first and on the whole I’d agree with that. Not being a Japanese speaker, I found I could not pronounce (properly) the constant words, phrases, speech and place/peoples names but that didn’t stop me trying and enjoying the book regardless. Like the works of Trevanian or John le Carré, A Clean Kill in Tokyo [is] an East-meets-West take on the samurai/assassin tale, washed fresh by the rain and infused with the neon glow of the Ginza.”. “An excellent debut novel.”. I en. A Clean Kill in Tokyo (formerly published as Rain Fall) is the first book in the John Rain series, about an ex-military assassin who is half American and half Japanese. I had met Rain before, peripherally, in the Livia Lone Killer Collective books, and been intending to check this earlier series out.
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