Book 1

A Clean Kill in Tokyo

by Barry Eisler

Published 11 February 2014
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....Read more

Book 4

Redemption Games

by Barry Eisler

Published 11 February 2014
Previously published as Killing Rain and One Last Kill

After nearly dying while taking out a target in Hong Kong, Rain has a new employer, The Mossad, which wants him to fix a “problem” in Manila. He also has a new partner, Dox, whose good-ol’-boy persona masks a...Read more

Book 6

The Killer Ascendant

by Barry Eisler

Published 14 October 2014
Previously published as Requiem for an Assassin

Hunted and finally cornered, John Rain faces his deadliest enemy ever: himself.

For Rain, “the most charismatic assassin since James Bond” (San Francisco Chronicle), getting out of the life was never going to be easy. But with a new identity...Read more

Extremis

by Barry Eisler

Published 1 March 2013
Previously published as The Last Assassin

Even for an average citizen, a love triangle is dangerous business. For assassin John Rain—”one of the most compelling lead characters in the genre” (USA Today)—it’s going to be downright deadly.

When Rain learns that his former lover, Midori, has...Read more

The Detachment

by Barry Eisler

Published 18 October 2011
John Rain is back. And “the most charismatic assassin since James Bond” (San Francisco Chronicle) is up against his most formidable enemy yet: the nexus of political, military, media, and corporate factions known only as the Oligarchy.

When legendary black ops veteran Colonel Scott “Hort” Horton tracks Rain...Read more

Winner Take All

by Barry Eisler

Published 11 February 2014
Previously published as Rain Storm and Choke Point

John Rain has disappeared in Brazil to escape the killing business and the enemies encircling him in Japan. But the CIA isn’t willing to lose its premier “natural causes” contract killer, and they force Rain to take on a...Read more

Zero Sum

by Barry Eisler

Published 27 June 2017

Returning to Tokyo in 1982 after a decade of mercenary work in the Philippines, a young John Rain learns that the killing business is now controlled by Victor, a half-Russian, half-Japanese sociopath who has ruthlessly eliminated all potential challengers. Victor gives Rain a choice: kill a government minister or...

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A Lonely Resurrection

by Barry Eisler

Published 11 February 2014
Previously published as Hard Rain and Blood from Blood

All John Rain wants is to get out of the killing business. But with his discretion, his reliability, and his unique talent for death by “natural causes,” no one is willing to let him just retire. So when an...Read more

Graveyard of Memories

by Barry Eisler

Published 11 February 2014
What makes a legendary assassin? For John Rain, it was the lessons of love, war, and betrayal he learned in Tokyo in 1972.

Fresh from the killing fields of Southeast Asia, Rain works as a bagman under the watchful eye of his CIA handler, delivering cash to corrupt...Read more

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