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Rain Fall af Barry Eisler
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Rain Fall (original 2002; udgave 2002)

af Barry Eisler (Forfatter)

Serier: John Rain (1)

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John Rain kills people. For a living. His specialty: making it seem like death by natural causes. But he won't kill just anyone. The target must be a principal player. And never a woman. Half American, half Japanese-but out of place in both worlds-Rain is filled with opportunities. John Rain may not be a good man, but he's good at what he does...

Until he falls for the beautiful daughter of his last kill.

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Medlem:wrevans
Titel:Rain Fall
Forfattere:Barry Eisler (Forfatter)
Info:Putnam Adult (2002), 336 pages
Samlinger:Dit bibliotek, Skal læses
Vurdering:****
Nøgleord:Ingen

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A Clean Kill in Tokyo aka Rain Fall af Barry Eisler (2002)

  1. 10
    Gone Tomorrow af Lee Child (BeckyJG)
    BeckyJG: John Rain is a hero who is similar in many ways to Jack Reacher. A man of action and of few words, deep, lonely (even if he doesn't realize it). Rain is perhaps more morally ambiguous than Reacher; both kill without hesitation and little remorse, but Rain is, after all, an assassin, and gets paid to do so.… (mere)
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    Killing Floor af Lee Child (crazybatcow)
    crazybatcow: Lee Child's series starring Reacher starts with Killing Floor. If you like Rain's no-nonsense doing of whatever job it is that needs to be done, you'll probably like Child's series too.
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    Nattens konger af Michael Connelly (Jestak)
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Japanese American private assassin, John Rain. Good plot. Lots of Japanese place locations slowing me down, but overall a good read. This is an early novel by Eisler, and reissued with the title he originally wanted but the publisher wouldn't support. ( )
  jjbinkc | Aug 27, 2023 |
Pretty good writing, interesting protagonist who COULD have gotten where he did as a result of his Viet-Nam War experience, but finally not really believable. ( )
  RickGeissal | Aug 16, 2023 |
Read several of the Rain series some time ago, so I don't remember the details. ( )
  MartyFried | Oct 9, 2022 |
Good story about a half-Japanese, half-American assassin, who falls for the daughter of one of his targets. Great details about Tokyo. ( )
  skipstern | Jul 11, 2021 |
First half slow going, seemingly not so well-written. Also, the protagonist is an assassin; why would I care about him and his life? Second half of the book picks up a lot of speed and I'm starting to find the guy pretty interesting. As the series progresses I've learned more about him and care more about his life. Pretty good. ( )
  tmph | Sep 13, 2020 |
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Fiction. Thriller. HTML:

John Rain kills people. For a living. His specialty: making it seem like death by natural causes. But he won't kill just anyone. The target must be a principal player. And never a woman. Half American, half Japanese-but out of place in both worlds-Rain is filled with opportunities. John Rain may not be a good man, but he's good at what he does...

Until he falls for the beautiful daughter of his last kill.

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