Новинки Барри Эйслера

Ein atemberaubend rasanter Thriller des ehemaligen CIA-Agenten und New-York-Times-Bestsellerautors Barry Eisler.

Jemand will sie ausschalten: Als Detective Livia Lone vom Seattle Police Department gegen einen Kinderpornoring ermittelt, entkommt sie nur knapp einem Anschlag. Unsicher, wem sie noch trauen kann, nimmt sie Kontakt mit Dox auf, einem ehemaligen Scharfschützen. Alarmiert trommelt Dox ein knallhartes Team zusammen: John Rain, Spezialist für »natürliche Todesfälle«, dessen Ex-Geliebte Delilah vom Mossad und drei weitere Agenten, die mit dem Geschäft des Tötens vertraut sind.

Gemeinsam mit Livia nehmen sie den Kampf gegen die Drahtzieher des internationalen Syndikats auf. Und plötzlich haben sie Todfeinde in allerhöchsten Regierungskreisen …

Alex Treven has sacrificed everything to make partner in his high-tech law firm. But then the inventor of a technology Alex is banking on is murdered - and Alex narrowly escapes an attack in his house. Running out of time, he calls his estranged brother, Ben, an elite undercover soldier in the United States' war on terror. When Ben receives Alex's frantic call he hurries to San Francisco to help him. Only then does Alex reveal that there's another player who knows of the technology: Sarah Hosseini, a young Iranian American lawyer whom Alex has long secretly desired and whom Ben immediately distrusts. As these three struggle to identify the forces attempting to silence them, Ben and Alex must examine the events that drove them apart - even as Sarah's presence deepens the fault line between them.

When freelance assassin John Rain learns that his former lover has been raising their child in New York, he senses a chance for reconciliation, perhaps even redemption. But Midori is being watched by Rain's enemies, and Rain's sudden appearance puts mother and child in mortal danger.

When John Rain learns that his former lover, Midori, has been raising their child in New York, he senses a chance for reconciliation - perhaps even redemption - and a chance to get out of the killing game. But Midori is being watched by Rain's enemies, and his sudden appearance put mother and child in extreme danger.
To save them, Rain is forced to use the same deadly talents he had been hoping to leave behind. With the help of Tatsu, his friendly nemesis in the Japanese FBI, and Dox, the ex-marine sniper whose laid-back style masks a killer as deadly as Rain himself, Rain races against time to bring his enemies into the open and eliminate them once and for all. But to finish the job, he'll need one more ally: Israeli intelligence agent Delilah, a woman who represents an altogether different kind of threat.
"I've never liked doing a job in a new place. You don't know how to get in and out undetected, you don't know what tools you'll need to access the target, you don't know where you'll stick out and where you'll be able to fade into the background or disappear into a crowd". Формат: 11 см х 18 см.

Джон Рейн.
Наемный убийца и величайший "мастер смерти", а в Японии, где он живет, подобное искусство ценится очень высоко. Но теперь Рейн устал и твердо решил покончить с прошлым.
Однако профессионалу его уровня непросто "выйти в отставку".
Джона разыскивают и представители американских спецслужб, и начальник японской тайной полиции, и таинственный "крестный отец" якудза.
Зачем?
Чтобы дать очередное задание?
Или - чтобы избавиться от самого Рейна, которому слишком многое известно?
Он должен выяснить это - если, конечно, хочет остаться в живых...

Джон Рейн.
Наемный убийца, почитающий древний самурайский кодекс Бусидо...
Величайший "мастер смерти" Японии - страны, где подобное искусство ценится дорого.
Убийство высокопоставленного чиновника Кавамуры поначалу Джон Рейн считал всего лишь очередным "заказом".
Но все изменилось, когда он узнал, что следующая в его списке на уничтожение дочь Кавамуры - Мидори. Девушка, в которую он безнадежно влюблен.
Отказаться от "заказа"?
Но разве это спасет Мидори?!
Значит, необходимо найти и ликвидировать таинственного "заказчика"...

The Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Macau, where John Rain is on a tough assignment: take out a ruthless and well-protected international arms dealer and make it look like "natural causes". Trouble is, there are others interested in the quarry - with motives counter to Rain's own.

Tracking his man from the casinos of Macau to the alleyways of downtown Hong Kong, Rain will need all his formidable talents to survive. He must face beautiful and lethal foreign agents, martial arts experts - and, most of all, the possibility that his own employers aren't quite what they seem...

Формат: 11 см х 18 см.

Critics praised Barry Eisler's first two novels, Rain Fall and Hard Rain, calling Japanese-American John Rain, the cynical, romantic, conscientious assassin, "one of the most memorable characters in recent thrillers" (San Jose Mercury News) and "a remarkable creation, a multifaceted killer with the soul of a poet" (Mystery Ink).

In Rain Storm, Rain has fled to Brazil to escape the killing business and the enemies who have been encircling him. But his knack for making death seem to have been of "natural causes" and his ability to operate unnoticed in Asia continue to create unwelcome demand for his services. His old employer, the CIA, persuades him to take on a high-risk assignment: a ruthless arms dealer supplying criminal groups throughout Southeast Asia.

The upside? Financial, of course, along with the continued chimera of moral redemption. But first, Rain must survive the downside: a second assassin homing in on the target; the target's consort-an alluring woman named Delilah with an agenda of her own; and the possibility that the entire mission is nothing but an elaborate setup. From the gorgeous beaches of Rio to the glitzy casinos of Macao to the gritty back streets of Hong Kong and Kowloon, Rain becomes a reluctant player in an international game far deadlier and more insidious than he has ever encountered before.

Previously published as Rain Storm and Choke Point

John Rain has disappeared to 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 high-risk assignment: eliminate a ruthless arms dealer operating in Southeast Asia.

The upside? Financial, of course, along with the ongoing chimera of moral redemption. But first, Rain will have to survive the downside: a second assassin zeroing in on the target; the target's consort, an alluring and dangerous woman with an agenda of her own; the possibility that the entire mission is nothing but an elaborate setup. From the gorgeous beaches of Rio to the glitzy casinos of Macau to the gritty back streets of Hong Kong and Kowloon, Rain becomes a reluctant player in an international game far deadlier and more insidious than any he has encountered before.

"In his superb thriller series featuring charismatic Japanese-American assassin John Rain, author Barry Eisler serves up steamy foreign locales, stunning action and enough high-tech weaponry to make for an A-plus boys-and-their-toys read."
--New York Daily News

Includes a note from the author introducing the new edition.

John Rain, a Japanese American konketsu, or half-breed, learned his lethal trade as a member of the U.S. Special Forces. Although tortured by memories of atrocities he committed in Vietnam, he has become a paid assassin, a solitary man who lives in the shadows and trusts no one, even those who pay extraordinary sums for his ability to make murder look like natural death. But the aftermath of an otherwise routine hit on a government bureaucrat brings Rain to the attention of two men he knows from the old days in Vietnam: a friend who's now a Tokyo cop and an enemy who betrayed Rain long ago and is now the CIA's station chief in Japan. Like the gangster who hired Rain to kill Yasuhiro Kawamura, they want something the dead man had - a computer disk containing proof of high-level corruption, information that could destroy Japan's ruling political coalition. The search for the disk leads them to a woman Rain has come to love, a talented young jazz musician who also happens to be Kawamura's daughter. In this taut, brilliantly paced debut thriller, set in a vividly rendered Tokyo, the author manages an unlikely feat; he earns the reader's sympathy and concern for his protagonist, an amoral assassin who is one of most compelling characters in recent crime fiction.

Формат: 11 см x 18 см.