A Clean Kill in Tokyo: Library Edition

from jimgysin

A good blend of pulp, noir and mystery, set in Tokyo (mostly) and told from the traditional first-person point of view. A brief stumble into bad cliché near the end (and one that's a personal pet peeve, making it stand out for me) is the only thing that mars an otherwise terrific story, and every...

from Carol420

"Rain Fall" is a terrific debut about a Japanese-American hit man who works his profession under cover of being a "market-entry consultant" in Tokyo. John Rain is an efficient killer who will take on any assignment where the death needs to appear natural. But he's a killer-for-hire with particula...

from jimgysin

A good blend of pulp, noir and mystery, set in Tokyo (mostly) and told from the traditional first-person point of view. A brief stumble into bad cliché near the end (and one that's a personal pet peeve, making it stand out for me) is the only thing that mars an otherwise terrific story, and every...

from creighley

John Rain lives a sequestered life as personal assassin. Having served in special forces in VietNam, he has honed skills to be effective to the point that the "assignments" he has are made to look natural. He is also of dual nationality. He was born of an American mother and a Japanese father. Hi...

from kmajort

More of a 3.5. Good but not overly engaging for me, perhaps I need to look at #2 of series (obviously a lot of folks like this series)it just didn't click.I did like the not-set-in-America factor, though our hero is 'Merican, and his specialty... nice... the jazz clubs. Much is very clever, the a...