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A review by bjerz
A Clean Kill in Tokyo by Barry Eisler
5.0
One of the joys of just picking up a book in a second hand book store is finding a gem, like Barry Eisler's John Rain series. By fluke I picked up "Rain Fall" which has since been renamed "A Clean Kill in Tokyo" for some odd reason. Anyway, it is an amazing novel because it makes you care about a serial murderer.
John Rain, born to a Japanese father and American mother, is the perennial outsider, never fitting in anywhere he lives. He volunteers to fight in Vietnam as a teenager and finds his one great skill, killing. He is now living and working in Tokyo, a killer for hire who specializes in making the deaths look natural. He murders a minor government official then things get messy when he falls in love with the man's daughter and finds out that the man had been on his way to exposing government corruption.
There are many scenes of brutal, bloody fighting and killing, but because Eisler is such good story teller you become swept up by the story.
I recommend it but it is not for the squeamish.
John Rain, born to a Japanese father and American mother, is the perennial outsider, never fitting in anywhere he lives. He volunteers to fight in Vietnam as a teenager and finds his one great skill, killing. He is now living and working in Tokyo, a killer for hire who specializes in making the deaths look natural. He murders a minor government official then things get messy when he falls in love with the man's daughter and finds out that the man had been on his way to exposing government corruption.
There are many scenes of brutal, bloody fighting and killing, but because Eisler is such good story teller you become swept up by the story.
I recommend it but it is not for the squeamish.