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.
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