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John Rain has long vowed to leave the life of an assassin. Yet a rogue CIA operative, Jim Hilger, threatens his closest friend, Dox, by offering Rain a deadly ultimatum: complete a final hit list of three targets or face Dox’s murder. The job is simple in principle—kill the three and walk away—but Rain must wrestle with the certainty that Hilger may kill Dox anyway, that the three hits could be a trap, and that one of the targets is someone he deeply cares for. Across the urban sprawl of Silicon Valley and New York, the verdant forests of Bali, the boulevards of Paris, and the historic killing fields of Vietnam, Rain battles his age, his enemies, and most of all, his conscience in a tense gambit that challenges even his legendary resolve.
First publish date: 2007
Genre: Suspense/Action Suspense
Authors: Barry Eisler
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