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Author
Series
Ben Treven thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Physical Desc
345 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Silicon Valley, the eccentric inventor of a new encryption application is murdered in an apparent carjacking. In Istanbul, a cynical undercover operative receives a frantic call from his estranged younger brother. When Alex Treven, a patent lawyer who has been working for the inventor, is attacked in his apartment, he is convinced he is the target of a conspiracy, and his brother, Ben, is his only hope. Setting aside their differences, Alex and...
Author
Series
John Rain novels volume 6
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2008], c2007
Physical Desc
374 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
If you had to kill three people to save your best friend's life, would you do it? When John Rain decides to get out of the business, his hand is forced by rogue CIA operative Jim Hilger. Hilger kidnaps Dox, Rain's trusted partner and closest friend, and offers Rain a choice: carry out a final assignment, or bear the responsibility for Dox's murder. For a professional like John Rain, the choice ought to be easy: Do the job - a series of three hits...
Author
Series
John Rain novels volume 5
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
338 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Japanese/American contract killer John Rain learns that his former lover, Midori, has been raising their child in New York, he senses a chance for reconciliation, perhaps even for redemption. But Midori is being watched by Rain's enemies, and his sudden appearance puts mother and child in terrible danger. To save them, Rain is forced to use the same deadly talents he had been hoping to leave behind. With the help of Tatsu, his friendly nemesis...
Author
Series
John Rain novels volume 8
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
322 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
What makes a legendary assassin? For John Rain, it was the lessons of love, war, and betrayal he learned in Tokyo in 1972. Fresh from the killing fields of Southeast Asia, Rain works as a bagman under the watchful eye of his CIA handler, delivering cash to corrupt elements of the Japanese government. But when a delivery goes violently wrong, Rain finds himself in the crosshairs of Japan’s most powerful yakuza clan. To survive, Rain strikes a desperate...
Author
Series
John Rain novels volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
305 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
John Rain kills people. For a living. His specialty: making it seem like death by natural causes. But he won't take out just anyone. The job must be an exclusive. The target must be a principal player. And he'll never murder a woman. Half American, half Japanese, but out of place in both worlds, Rain bases his operation in Tokyo, where even a crowded subway car is filled with opportunities -- like slipping a pacemaker-jamming device onto a victim....
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
296 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When legendary black ops veteran Colonel Scott 'Hort' Horton tracks Rain down in Tokyo, Rain can't resist the offer: a multi-million dollar payday for the 'natural causes' demise of three ultra-high-profile targets who are dangerously close to launching a coup in America. But the opposition on this job is going to be too much for even Rain to pull it off alone. He'll need a detachment of other deniable irregulars: his partner, the former Marine sniper,...
Author
Series
John Rain novels volume 2
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
374 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
All John Rain wants is to disappear forever. What an old nemesis from Japan's FBI wants is one last favor: eliminate an assassin at large who kills without conscience. But there's a lot at stake -- including the lives of Rain's few friends, and a love from his past. Protecting them means plunging into the heart of a war between the CIA and the Japanese mafia, in which the distinctions between friends and foe, truth and deceit, and life and death are...
Author
Series
Ben Treven thrillers volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
345 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Marooned in a Manila jail after a bar fight fatality, black ops soldier Ben Treven gets a visit from his former commander, Colonel Scott Horton, who explains the price of Ben's release: Find and eliminate Daniel Larison, a rogue operator from Ben's unit who has stolen ninety-two torture tapes from the CIA and is using them to blackmail the U.S. government. But other players are after the tapes, too, and to find Larison, Ben will have to survive CIA...
Author
Series
John Rain novels volume 4
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2006], c2005
Physical Desc
373 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
No one but Japanese-American assassin John Rain can win the game of cross and double cross he encounters in this new novel of sexy international intrigue in the series. Torn between his past as a soldier and his vocation as a killer, longing for attachment but forced to operate alone, and haunted by the fear that one day there must be a reckoning for the things he has done, John Rain moves like a dark ghost through Tokyo and the other urban landscapes...
Author
Series
John Rain volume 3
Publisher
G.P. Putnan's Sons
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
341 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rain has fled to Brazil to escape the killing business and the enemies who have been encircling him. But his knack for making death seem to have been of "natural causes" and his ability to operate unnoticed in Asia continue to create unwelcome demand for his services. His old employer, the CIA, persuades him to take on a high-risk assignment: a ruthless arms dealer supplying criminal groups throughout Southeast Asia. The upside? Financial, of course,...
Author
Series
Livia Lone novels volume 2
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
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 Rithisak Sorm, the kingpin behind her own childhood ordeal. But after a planned takedown in a nightclub goes violently awry, Livia discovers that she’s not the only one hunting Sorm. Former marine sniper Dox has a score to settle, too, and working together is the only way to take Sorm out. Livia and Dox couldn’t...
Author
Series
John Rain novels volume 9
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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, a half-Russian, half-Japanese sociopath who has ruthlessly eliminated all potential challengers. Victor gives Rain a choice: kill a government minister or die a grisly death. But the best route to the minister is through his gorgeous Italian wife, Maria, a route that puts Rain on a collision...
Author
Series
Livia Lone novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seattle PD sex-crimes detective Livia Lone knows the monsters she hunts. Sold by her Thai parents along with her little sister, Nason; marooned in America; abused by the men who trafficked them…the only thing that kept Livia alive as a teenager was her determination to find Nason. Livia has never stopped looking. And she copes with her failure to protect her sister by doing everything she can to put predators in prison. Or, when that fails, by putting...
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