Requiem For An Assassin

suppose You Had To Kill Three People To Save Your Best Friend's Life? For John Rain, It Should Be Easy: Three Fast Hits And Disappear. But What If You Figured Your Friend Is Probably Going To Die Anyway? What If You Started To Think The Whole Thing Was A Setup? And What If You Were Afraid Three Was Just The Beginning? John Rain's Going To Give It A Shot. the Washington Post - Patrick Anderson … It's An Exciting, Fast-moving Tale, And Logic Be Damned. Eisler Makes It Easy For Us To Buy Into It Because He Writes Good Dialogue And Action Scenes And Gives His Characters A Fair Amount Of Depth. 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-then walk away. But how does Rain know Jim Hilger won't kill Dox anyway, once the assignment is complete? How does he know that each of the hits isn't simultaneously a setup for Rain himself? And what will he do when he finds out that among the targets of this lethal game of extortion is someone else Rain cares about deeply?From the urban canyons of Silicon Valley and New York to the lush forests of Bali, the boulevards of Paris, and the old killing fields of Vietnam, Rain must grapple with his age, his enemies, and most of all, his conscience in a battle that not even Rain-"the stuff great characters are made of" (Entertainment Weekly)-can hope to survive intact. Blackmailed by a rogue CIA operative to carry out three assassinations or see his best friend murdered, reluctant killer-for-hire John Rain struggles with moral dilemmas as well as his growing certainty that the operative is hiding a more sinister agenda.