Barry Eisler

Cum ajunge legendar un asasin? In cazul lui John Rain, decisive au fost lectiile de tradare, lupte si iubire pe care le-a primit in 1972, in Tokio.

Tema operei Asasinul din Tokio: Furia samuraiului este o situatie strict personala, care reprezinta o intruziune in viata profesionala a distributiei mele de asasini – practic, reversul subiectelor romanelor anterioare, in care situatia profesionala reprezenta o intruziune in viata personala.

Eu si Delilah ne intersectaseram in Macao, unde am descoperit ca eram interesati amandoi de dealerul de arme Achille Belghazi pentru uciderea caruia fusesem angajat, dar pe care oamenii lui Delilah il doreau viu ca sa obtina de la el informatii importante.

Cine era Delilah? In ce fel prezenta ei avea sa-mi afecteze operatiunea? Aceleasi intrebari, bineinteles, pe care si le punea si ea despre mine. Dupa felul cum se comportase, stiam ca era antrenata. De aceea, era mai probabil sa lucreze cu o organizatie, decat sa fi actionat intr-o misiune privata.

Am mers la un magazin cu articole pentru spionat din Shinjuku ca sa-mi cumpar cateva obiecte care aveau sa-mi fie necesare. Ceea ce oferea magazinul de vanzare aproape ca te speria: videocamere și microfoane mici cat gamalia de ac. Arme taser și spray-uri cu gaz paralizant.

Half American, half Japanese, expert in both worlds but at home in neither, John Rain is the best killer money can buy. You tell him who. You tell him where. He doesn’t care about why....

When a joint FBI-Seattle Police investigation of an international child pornography ring gets too close to certain powerful people, sex-crimes detective Livia Lone becomes the target of a hit that barely goes awry....

All John Rain wants is to get out of the killing business. But with his discretion, his reliability, and his unique talent for death by "natural causes," no one is willing to let him just retire....

Ten years ago, the daughter of Homeland Security Investigations agent B. D. Little vanished into thin air. So did seven other girls - the crimes all bearing the same signature characteristics. Now the disappearances have begun again....

Returning to Tokyo in 1982 after a decade of mercenary work in the Philippines, a young John Rain learns that the killing business is now controlled by Victor....

For sex-crimes detective Livia Lone, a position with a government anti-trafficking task force is a chance to return to Thailand to ferret out the kingpin behind her own childhood ordeal....

Seattle PD sex-crimes detective Livia Lone knows the monsters she hunts. Sold by her Thai parents along with her little sister, Nason; abused by the men who trafficked them; marooned in America...the only thing that kept Livia alive as a teenager was her determination to find Nason....

What makes a legendary assassin? For John Rain, it was the lessons of love, war, and betrayal he learned in Tokyo in 1972....

For former Marine sniper Dox, a long-range hit in Cambodia was supposed to be just business as usual....

For Delilah, the Mossad's top seductress, the parameters of the assignment were routine....

When the government offers a twenty-six-year-old former Marine a five-figure payday, there’s only one question: Who does he have to kill? 1991. A restless young man called Dox is back home in Texas....

Asst. US Attorney Alondra Diaz hates traffickers. And she’s determined to put one of America’s most powerful financiers, Andrew Schrader, in prison for his crimes against children. But Schrader has videos implicating some of the most powerful members of the national security state....

NSA director Theodore Anders has a simple goal: collect every phone call, email, and keystroke tapped on the Internet. He knows unlimited surveillance is the only way to keep America safe....

When legendary black ops veteran Colonel Scott “Hort” Horton tracks Rain down in Tokyo, Rain can’t resist the offer....