AKA: One Last Kill (UK)
Barry Eisler’s novels have been compared to the most beloved works of international suspense—from Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Supremacy to Frederick Forsythe’s The Day of the Jackal—and have garnered praise for the unforgettable John Rain, called a “dashing and dangerous hero” (San Francisco Chronicle) and an “ultra-cool assassin so perfect for our fictional times” (New York Daily News).
In Killing Rain (One Last Kill, UK), Rain has a new employer, the Mossad, which wants him to fix a “problem” in Manila; and a new partner, Dox, whose good-ol’ boy persona masks a sniper as deadly as Rain himself. He also has a new hope: that by using his talents in the service of something good, he might atone for all the lives he has already taken. But when Rain’s conscience causes him to botch an assignment, he finds out that the Mossad’s next assignment is himself. And when Delilah, the alluring Israeli agent he once fought and then loved, reappears in his life, is she there to help him – or to finish him off?
Eisler has created one of the most memorable new characters in thriller fiction and in Killing Rain proves once again why he is a rising a star of suspense, a writer who combines “the insouciance of Ian Fleming, the realistic detail of Tom Clancy, the ennui of Graham Green and the prose power of John Le Carre” (The News-Press).
