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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.

Als der legendäre Strohmann Colonel Scott "Hort" Horton den Auftragskiller John Rain in Tokio aufspürt, kann Rain seinem Angebot - einem Multi-Millionen-Dollar-Job - nicht widerstehen. Dafür muss er drei extrem hochrangige Ziele "unter natürlichen Umständen" ausschalten, die gefährlich nahe daran sind, einen Staatsstreich in den USA anzuzetteln.

Die unnahbare Livia Lone ist Detective bei der Polizei von Seattle. Und sie ist gut. Richtig gut. Spezialisiert auf Sexualdelikte, mit einem unbestechlichen Blick für die schrecklichen Begierden der Täter. Was niemand von ihren Kollegen weiß: Als Kind wurde sie mit ihrer kleinen Schwester Nason von den Eltern verkauft und strandete in Amerika, missbraucht von den Menschenhändlern, die sie ins Land schmuggelten. Seit die Schwestern getrennt wurden, ist es Livias Mission, Nason zu finden. Nie, nie, nie vergisst sie dieses eine höchste Ziel, während sie als Polizistin Täter hinter Gitter bringt. Oder direkt unter die Erde.

Assistant US Attorney Alondra Diaz hates traffickers. And she’s determined to put one of America’s most powerful financiers, Andrew Schrader, in prison forever for his crimes against children. But Schrader has videos implicating some of the most powerful members of the US national security state. To eliminate Diaz, the powers that be bring in a contractor: Marvin Manus, an implacable assassin whose skills have been forged in intelligence, the military, and the hardest prisons. 

Ein atemberaubend rasanter Thriller des ehemaligen CIA-Agenten und New-York-Times-Bestsellerautors Barry Eisler. Jemand will sie ausschalten: Als Detective Livia Lone vom Seattle Police Department gegen einen Kinderpornoring ermittelt, entkommt sie nur knapp einem Anschlag. Unsicher, wem sie noch trauen kann, nimmt sie Kontakt mit Dox auf, einem ehemaligen Scharfschützen. Alarmiert trommelt Dox ein knallhartes Team zusammen: John Rain, Spezialist für "natürliche Todesfälle", dessen Ex-Geliebte Delilah vom Mossad und drei weitere Agenten, die mit dem Geschäft des Tötens vertraut sind.

Valeria Velez has just pulled off a stunning upset in California's 27th District, ousting ten-term corporatist incumbent Fillian Dunne from his seat in Congress. Young, beautiful, and idealistic, Valeria and her boyfriend/campaign manager Preston Jante are determined to use Valeria's new position to "stop stuffing the maw of the military machine" and return power to the people. But when fugitive hacker Lance Thaddeus uncovers a top-secret Pentagon program combining artificial intelligence with nuclear command-and-control, Valeria might have to choose between her ideals...and her life.

Even for an average citizen, a love triangle is dangerous business. For assassin John Rainn - "one of the most compelling lead characters in the genre" ( USA Today) it's going to be downright deadly. When Rain learns that his former lover, Midori, has been raising their child in New York, Rain senses a chance for reconciliation, perhaps even for redemption. But Midori and the child are being watched by Rain's enemies, and Rain's sudden appearance puts them in terrible danger. To save them, Rain is forced to use the same deadly talents he had been hoping to leave behind.

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.

Hunted and finally cornered, John Rain faces his deadliest enemy ever: himself. For Rain, "the most charismatic assassin since James Bond" (San Francisco Chronicle), getting out of the life was never going to be easy. But with a new identity in Paris, and the help of his lover, Mossad agent Delilah, he was beginning to leave the killing business behind. And then he receives a message from rogue CIA operative Jim Hilger: we have your friend Dox. Do as we tell you, or he dies.

Detective Livia Lone ist zurück! Der zweite Band der fesselnden Thriller-Reihe von Ex-CIA-Agent Barry Eisler. Von Seattle fliegt Detective Livia Lone nach Thailand, das Land ihrer Herkunft. Sie soll hier eine Taskforce gegen Menschenhandel unterstützen. Insgeheim will Livia aber die Zeit für ihren persönlichen Racheplan nutzen. Sie muss den Drahtzieher Rithisak Sorm finden. Er und seine Mittelsmänner sind schuld am tragischen Schicksal von Livias Schwester.

Rory Miller's Facing Violence: Preparing for the Unexpected includes seven elements that must be addressed to bring self-defense training to something approaching complete. These elements are: legal and ethical implications, violence dynamics, avoidance, counter-ambush, breaking the freeze, the fight itself, and the aftermath. Training that dismisses any of these areas leaves you vulnerable.

John Rain is back. And “the most charismatic assassin since James Bond” ( San Francisco Chronicle) is up against his most formidable enemy yet: the nexus of political, military, media, and corporate factions known only as the Oligarchy. 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.

After nearly dying while taking out a target in Hong Kong, Rain has a new employer, the Mossad, which wants him to fix a "problem" in Manila. He also has a new partner, Dox, whose good-ol'-boy persona masks a sniper as deadly as Rain himself. And he has a new hope: that by using his talents for something good, he might atone for all the lives he has taken. But when Rain's conscience causes him to botch the Manila hit, he finds out the next problem the Mossad wants fixed is himself. Is Delilah, his Mossad lover, coming to help him? Or was she sent to finish him off?

1991. A restless young man called Dox is back home in Texas. His friends have missed him, and his mother and sisters need him. But after four years as a Marine and another two as a CIA contractor fighting the Soviet Union alongside the Afghan mujahideen, small-town life in Abilene is a suffocating dead end. Another secret war, this one in Southeast Asia, offers a big payday and the solution to his family’s troubles. But secret wars are never what they’re billed to be, and Dox is about to get the education of his young life. 

John Rain has disappeared to Brazil to escape the killing business and the enemies encircling him in Japan. But the CIA isn't willing to lose its premier "natural causes" contract killer, and they force Rain to take on a high-risk assignment: eliminate a ruthless arms dealer operating in Southeast Asia. The upside? Financial, of course, along with the ongoing chimera of moral redemption. But first, Rain will have to survive the downside: a second assassin zeroing in on the target; the target's consort, an alluring and dangerous woman with an agenda of her own.

All John Rain wants is to get out of the killing business. But with his discretion, his reliability, and his unique talent for death by "natural causes," no one is willing to let him just retire. So when an old nemesis from the Japanese national police force comes to him with a new job - eliminate Murakami, a killer even more fearsome than Rain himself - Rain knows he can't refuse. Aided by an achingly desirable half Brazilian, half Japanese exotic dancer he knows he shouldn't trust, Rain pursues his quarry into the heart of a shadow war between the CIA and the yakuza.

NSA director Theodore Anders has a simple goal: collect every phone call, email, and keystroke tapped on the Internet. He knows unlimited surveillance is the only way to keep America safe. Evelyn Gallagher doesn't care much about any of that. She just wants to keep her head down and manage the NSA's camera network and facial recognition program so she can afford private school for her deaf son, Dash.

For former Marine sniper Dox, a long-range hit in Cambodia was supposed to be just business as usual. But when you find yourself mixed up with rogue intelligence operations, gorgeous bar girls, and the world's worst human-trafficking heart of darkness, business is anything but usual. And making it personal is the most dangerous business of all.

For most couples, a quiet dinner for two at Auberge de la Reine Blanche on the Ile Saint Louis would be just the thing to smooth out the complications in a romance. But for gorgeous Mossad operative Delilah and trying-to-retire contract killer John Rain, nothing is ever easy, and when Rain sees a crew of hard-looking men setting up outside the restaurant, he realizes someone has been bringing her work home with her. Is it a hit - or something even worse?

Das Attentat auf große Distanz in Kambodscha sollte für Dox als ehemaligen Scharfschützen der Marines eigentlich ein ganz normaler Auftrag werden. Aber wenn man sich auf skrupellose Geheimdienstoperationen und wunderschöne Bargirls mitten im finsteren Zentrum des Menschenhandels einlässt, ist nichts mehr normal. Und die Sache persönlich zu nehmen, ist lebensgefährlich.