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John Rain

This series plunges into the life of a highly skilled, yet morally conflicted assassin navigating the treacherous path between his deadly profession and a yearning for redemption. Each assignment draws him deeper into a world of espionage, betrayal, and violence, where the lines between right and wrong blur with every encounter. It explores the complexities of the human psyche and the ultimate price of one's actions, all set against a backdrop of international intrigue.

One Last Kill
The Killer Collective
Hard Rain
Rain Storm
The Last Assassin
Requiem for an Assassin

Recommended Reading Order

  1. 1

    A Japanese-American assassin who specializes in "natural cause" killings finds his carefully ordered world coming under siege in the wake of a government official's murder, with which he has been falsely connected, a situation that is complicated by his attraction to the victim's daugher. Reprint.

    Rain Fall
  2. 2

    Hard Rain

    • 450 pages
    • 16 hours of reading
    4.0(31)Add rating

    John Rain has gone to ground. He's had enough of doing people's dirty work for them. He's had his fill of killing. Yet when his old nemesis tracks him down, he is forced to do his bidding. Powerful, secretive elements threaten to bring down the government - and Rain must stop them the only way he knows how. Getting involved will expose his few friends and contacts to extreme danger. But no one knows this business like John Rain, and no one would underestimate a man protecting all he holds dear...

    Hard Rain
  3. 3

    Rain Storm

    • 384 pages
    • 14 hours of reading
    4.1(265)Add rating

    Accepting an assignment from the CIA to take out an arms dealer who is supplying criminal groups in Southeast Asia, assassin-for-hire John Rain finds the job compromised by a rival assassin and the fear that he is being set up. Reprint.

    Rain Storm
  4. 4

    One Last Kill

    • 376 pages
    • 14 hours of reading
    3.9(81)Add rating

    Rain has a new employer, Israeli intelligence organization the Mossad, which wants him to fix a "problem" in Manila; and a new partner, Dox, whose good-ol' boy persona masks a sniper as deadly as Rain himself. He also has a new hope: that by using his talents in the service of something good, he might atone for all the lives he has already taken.

    One Last Kill
  5. 5

    The Last Assassin

    • 373 pages
    • 14 hours of reading
    3.9(316)Add rating

    Hoping to reconcile with the mother of his child, reluctant contract killer John Rain inadvertently places them in the path of dangerous enemies and is forced to recruit the help of his nemesis from the Japanese FBI and an ex-Marine sniper. Reprint.

    The Last Assassin
  6. 6

    Blackmailed by a rogue CIA operative to carry out three assassinations or see his best friend murdered, reluctant killer-for-hire John Rain struggles with moral dilemmas as well as his growing certainty that the operative is hiding a more sinister agenda.

    Requiem for an Assassin
  7. 7

    The Detachment

    • 296 pages
    • 11 hours of reading
    4.1(4139)Add rating

    John Rain is back. And the assassin is up against his most formidable enemy yet: the nexus of political, military, media, and corporate factions known only as the Oligarchy.

    The Detachment
  8. 8
  9. 9

    Returning to Tokyo in 1982 after a decade of mercenary work in the Philippines, John Rain learns that the killing business is now controlled by a half-Russian, half-Japanese sociopath who wants John to kill a government minister or die a grisly death.

    Zero Sum
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