REQUIEM FOR AN ASSASSIN
Barry Eisler
Putnam Adult
Thriller
ISBN-10: 0399154264
ISBN-13: 9780399154263

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

For John 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 in Paris, and the help of his lover, Mossad agent Delilah, he was beginning to leave the killing business behind.

And then he receives a message from rogue CIA operative Jim Hilger: we have your friend Dox. Do as we tell you, or the former Marine sniper dies.

For a professional like Rain, the choice ought to be easy: do the job --- a series of three hits --- and save his friend and partner. But how does Rain know Hilger won’t kill Dox anyway, once the assignment is complete? How does he know that each of the hits isn’t simultaneously a setup for Rain himself? Most of all, how can he control the killing rage Hilger’s lethal game of extortion reignites inside him?

From the deceptively tranquil beaches of Bali, to the backstreets and boulevards of Paris, to the urban canyons of Silicon Valley and New York and the old killing fields of Vietnam, Rain must grapple with his age, his enemies, and, most of all, with the killer inside himself in a battle that not even Rain, “the stuff great characters are made of” (Entertainment Weekly), can hope to survive intact.

REQUIEM FOR AN ASSASSIN © Copyright 2008 by Barry Eisler. Reprinted with permission by Putnam Adult. All rights reserved.

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Critical Praise

"First-rate…  Perhaps not since the James Bond of the Ian Fleming novels has there been an assassin so charismatic."

--- San Francisco Chronicle

"Furious and creative…  Rain’s combination of quirks and proficiency is the stuff great characters are made of."

--- Entertainment Weekly

"Written with a delightfully soft touch and a powerful blend of excitement, exotica and what (ever since John le Carré) readers have known to call tradecraft."

--- The Economist

"Eisler is one of the most talented and literary writers in the thriller genre."

--- Chicago Sun-Times

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