The Last Assassin

Elite Japanese American assassin John Rain shockingly learns from respected colleague and fatherly mentor Tatsu, a high ranking member of the Japanese FBI, that he is a parent. A son had been born from a romantic interlude with Midori, daughter of a Japanese minister, Rain had liquidated on a previous assignment. The manipulative Tatsu realized that Rain would become obsessed with seeing his son and Midori, a noted jazz... Read Full Review

This is the fifth book in the John Rain seriesmand it is another winner.The hero of this series is John Rain a Japanese- American former Special Forces soldier.He is now a specialized freelance assassin whose assignments lokk like death by natural causes. Thanks to his friend Tatsu Rain discovers that he has a son by his former love Midori.Rain had assassinated her father in the first book.She is being watched by Rain's... Read Full Review

Like nearly everyone posting a review, I'm a huge Eisler/Rain fan. I put "Eisler" and "Rain" together because in my mind the two are inseparable. The latest installment reads as a great mix of drama and high-octane action. John Rain is once again drawn into a situation regardless of his own wishes to "retire." The story picks up right where the last novel left off, Rain deciding to go and see his old lover Midori and their... Read Full Review

I have simply devoured all the John Rain books. THE LAST ASSASSIN arrived in the mail yesterday; as always, I couldn't put it down and finished it tonight, disappointed I'd reached the end. John Rain is an assassin you get attached to, and even begin to understand. Another reviewer is apparently disappointed in the way Rain has evolved over the course of five books. However, the changes are simply evidence of Rain's... Read Full Review

This is an excellent action-adventure novel that rips you from Barcelona to New York to Japan and back again, while the protagonist must contend with the Japaneze Yakuza, Chinese triads, the anger and bitterness of an ex-love, the jealousy of his current flame, and most difficult of all, the unaswerable questions in his own heart caused by the revelation that he has an infant son in New York. This is the fifth in Eisler's... Read Full Review