A Clean Kill in Tokyo: A John Rain Novel (Unabridged)
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3.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $18.99
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- $18.99
Publisher Description
Previously published as Rain Fall
Name: John Rain.
Vocation: Assassin.
Specialty: Natural Causes.
Base of operations: Tokyo.
Availability: Worldwide.
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...
Until he gets involved with Midori Kawamura, a beautiful jazz pianist - and the daughter of his latest kill.
A Clean Kill in Tokyo was previously published as Rain Fall, the first in the bestselling John Rain assassin series.
Customer Reviews
Maximum bluster, moderate intrigue.
Characters seemed at once short on dimension and development, yet Rain’s every thought and whim are played out in nauseatingly granular detail. Where wit would be best, we get tired clichés, especially from Dox — a caricature of every large, ostensibly unintelligent big man from the lazily assembled roster of oafs… except when he’s superficially quoting Nietzsche. The descriptions of designer apparel and accessories, whether fuelled by the author’s interest or envy, reflect an astonishing attention to depth absent in many of the book’s characters. Descriptions of fight scenes are lost to anyone illiterate in the Japanese nomenclature for various Judo strikes and throws. Descriptions of intimate interactions seemed embarrassingly adolescent, hormonally driven, and lacking a desire to stimulate the imagination with understatement. The theme throughout is of overstatement; and, it continues in the next book, which I abandoned.