Killing Rain
by Barry Eisler
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Author: Barry EislerEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-06-06
ISBN: 0451412184
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Onyx
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Book Review: Good decent thriller
Summary: 3 Stars
Barry Eisler's 'Killing Rain' is a good serviceable thriller. This is part of a series. It opens with established characters and story line. It ends with not one but two possible sequels. I've read the first two books in the Rain series before. I thought they were good also. I dont think any character I have come across gets closer to Lee Child's Reacher than this Rain series. So if you like Child, your going to like Eisler.
This time, John Rain is partnered up with Dox, a big hulking sniper. Dox plays off Rain as a comedic side kick/best friend. He is an enjoyable character and highlights the best of Eisler's writing ability. I felt like I was dealing with two distinct personalities. This isn't something that every author does, and Eisler does it well.
Rain and Dox are hired to take out a bad guy who sells his services to nefarious terrorists. It turns out that this explosives expert is working under the guidance of the CIA, or at least under the guidance of an operative Rain has come across before. The hit goes wrong and the next couple of hundred pages deal with Rain and Dox trying to clean things up.
I am in the great minority here in only giving this story 3 stars. I'm impressed that Eisler continuously gets close to a 5 star average book after book. I would have to agree that Eisler deserves the accolades he is receiving for his story telling. He has a nice way of pushing the story line along. However, just judging "killing rain" by itself, as a story outside of the series, its nothing special. Rain has already been pretty much fully developed in previous stories. I also feel like Rain is just too good of a person. He is like a white knight, only one who has killed hundreds of people for profit. Rain is not twisted or conflicted like a 'Dexter' character, instead Eisler crafts him as an innocent. Eisler makes him out to be the 'everyman' character so popular today (see Harlan Coben). I just don't buy it. I see a huge clash between job description and character outline.
I also despise the neat formulaic manner in which Eisler has laid out this plot inside of his larger series. I felt that this story was terribly empty. I would applaud Eisler if he ended this series and worked on something new. I know he wont. But it would be nice if he did. People here on Amazon are saying "man, I wish this were turned into a movie". This feels like Die Hard 4 or Leathal Weapon 4. You are getting the same old same old.
Summary of Killing Rain
Now Rain has a new employer, the Mossad, which wants him to fix a ?problem? in Manila with the aide of his new partner, Dox, whose good-ol?-boy persona masks a sniper as deadly as Rain himself. He also has a new hope: By using his talents in the service of something good, he might atone for all the lives he has taken. But when Rain?s conscience causes him to botch an assignment, he finds that he?s the Mossad?s next target.?
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