In Hard Rain (Blood from Blood, UK), the lethal assassin John Rain is back. Rain—half-Japanese, half-American, raised in both countries but at home in neither—is trying to leave his life as a freelance assassin, but no one will let him just retire. With his military discipline and martial arts skills, and his talent for making death appear to have been of “natural causes,” he is both a potential asset—and a threat—to everyone.
After killing a CIA officer who had hunted him halfway around the globe, Rain plans his own disappearance, hoping to find the peace that has eluded him. But then his old nemesis from the Japanese FBI comes to him with one last “favor:” find and eliminate a killer at large, a creature without compassion or conscience.
It’s soon clear that it’s not just Japan’s fragile balance of political power that’s threatened, but also the lives of Rain’s few friends, including that of a love from his past. To protect them, Rain must pursue his lethal quarry into the heart of a war between the CIA and the Japanese mafia, where the distinctions between friend and foe and truth and deceit are as murky as the rain-slicked streets of Tokyo.
Putnam US hardcover July 2003 0399150528
Signet US mass market paperback July 2004 0451212460
Brilliance Audio June 2004 Unabridged 1593356374
Michael Joseph UK hardcover September 2003 0718145585
Penguin UK mass market paperback June 2004 0141010118
