Book Preview I hadn’t killed anyone in almost four years. But all good things come to an end, eventually. It was good to be living in Tokyo again. The face of the city had changed, as it continuously does, and the great Touhoku quake and tsunami continued to make their presence known in the form … Read more
Book Preview G. P. PUTNAM’S SONSPublishers Since 1838Published by the Penguin GroupPenguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA • Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario M4P 2Y3, Canada (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) • Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, … Read more
Book Preview I‘ve never liked doing a job in a new place. You don’t know how to get in and out undetected, you don’t know what tools you’ll need to access the target, you don’t know where you’ll stick out and where you’ll be able to fade into the background or disappear in a crowd. … Read more
Book Preview KILLING ISN’T THE HARD PART Gangbangers and other fear biters do it every day. Anger pumps you up, panic cancels consideration, you grab the gun, close your eyes, pull the trigger, Christ, an ape could do it, you don’t even need to be a man. No, the truth is, killing is the easy … Read more
Book Preview the agency had hired me to “retire” Belghazi, not to protect him. So if this didn’t go well, their next candidate for a retirement package would probably be me. But the way I saw it, saving Belghazi from the guy I now thought of as Karate would be doing Uncle Sam a favor. … Read more
Book Preview After killing a CIA officer who had hunted him halfway around the globe. John Rain goes underground, hoping to disappear, seeking the peace that has eluded him. But then Rain’s old nemesis from the Tokyo FBI finds him. forcing him into one last job: track down and eliminate a killer at large, a … Read more
Book Preview Meet John Rain. Assassin. He follows his own code — he needs no one, trusts no one — until betrayal transforms him from hunter into hunted and loner into loyal friend. Haunted by the past, Rain kills to order and leaves no trace but the death at his hand of an old man … Read more