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Category: Barry Eisler

  • Book Review: “Hard Rain” by Barry Eisler

    Genre: Thriller Rating: 3.5 Water Towers John Rain is a scary individual. As Hard Rain opens, Rain kills the owner of a gym, Ishihara, while Ishihara is lifting weights. As usual, the death looks natural: a weightlifter trying to bench press more weight than he should. Picking up where “Rain Fall” left off, John is…

  • Book Review: "Rain Fall" by Barry Eisler

    Book Review: "Rain Fall" by Barry Eisler

      Genre: Thriller: Assassin (“Rain Fall” was re-named “A Clean Kill in Tokyo” Rating: 4 Water Towers John Rain is a killer. But unlike most for hire killers, he comes with a code of ethics: He will not kill women or children, he will only kill the principle (not some poor soldier just taking orders),…