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John Rain kills people. For a living. His specialty: making it seem like death by natural causes. But he won't kill just anyone. The target must be a principal player. And never a woman. Half American, half Japanese-but out of place in both worlds-Rain is filled with opportunities. John Rain may not be a good man, but he's good at what he does...
Until he falls for the beautiful daughter of his last kill.
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John Rain, a Japanese American konketsu, or half-breed, learned his lethal trade as a member of the U.S. Special Forces. Although tortured by memories of atrocities he committed in Vietnam, he has become a paid assassin, a solitary man who lives in the shadows and trusts no one, even those who pay extraordinary sums for his ability to make murder look like natural death. But the aftermath of an otherwise routine hit on a government bureaucrat brings Rain to the attention of two men he knows from the old days in Vietnam: a friend who's now a Tokyo cop and an enemy who betrayed Rain long ago and is now the CIA's station chief in Japan. Like the gangster who hired Rain to kill Yasuhiro Kawamura, they want something the dead man had--a computer disk containing proof of high-level corruption, information that could destroy Japan's ruling political coalition. The search for the disk leads them to a woman Rain has come to love, a talented young jazz musician who also happens to be Kawamura's daughter. In this taut, brilliantly paced debut thriller, set in a vividly rendered Tokyo, the author manages an unlikely feat; he earns the reader's sympathy and concern for his protagonist, an amoral assassin who is one of most compelling characters in recent crime fiction. --Jane Adams
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3 人中、3人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
形式:マスマーケット
rain fall is a mediocre book when talking about action. eisler writes well as a "rookie" in the thriller world, but he is uncomparable to the works of seasoned writers such as tom clancy, david baldacci, vince flynn, etc.
in terms of material, rain fall is utterly fascinating. the book underlines the corruption that runs through japanese bureaucracy. this book is fiction, but the corruption matter is very real in japan. it is obvious that eisler has done a lot of research into the matter.
in addition, i highly recommend this book to readers who live or have spent some time in tokyo. eisler did an excellent job in creating tokyo in rain fall.
2 人中、2人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
形式:マスマーケット
ストーリーの完成度の高さもさる事ながら、ぜひ原文で
読んでもらいたい理由は、その文章そのものにあります。
読んでもらいたい理由は、その文章そのものにあります。
日本語版は読んでませんが、翻訳の際は苦労されたのでは。
何しろ登場人物達の殆どが日本語も英語もぺらぺらで、英語で
会話しつつもRain sanと「さん」づけで呼んだり、お店に入れば
irasshaimase、格闘シーンではosoto-gariなど柔道の技連発、
と日本語がわかる人には2倍楽しめることうけあいです。
さらに著者のあとがきには、東京の地理やお店の所在についても、
2ヶ所の例外を除いて出来るかぎり正確を期した、とわざわざ
その2ヶ所について注釈を加えるほどの凝りよう。東京在住の方
であれば3倍楽しめる（かもしれない）おいしい1冊なのです。
Amazon.com で最も参考になったカスタマーレビュー (beta)
Amazon.com:
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85 人中、82人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Noir on Steroids
2004/2/24
形式:マスマーケット
Rain Fall gives the thriller novel a much-needed shot of adrenalin. Eisler's hero, a half Japanese/half American assassin named John Rain, is one of the most compelling series characters in recent fiction. Moral but heartless, a man with a terrible past and no certain future, Rain wrestles with two cultures and personal demons in a first-person, noir-on-steroids narrative.
With Rain Fall, Eisler proves himself a worthy heir to the killer-for-hire sub-genre created by Andrew Vachss, Trevanian, David Morrell, and Eric Van Lustbader.
The book is set in a modern Japan filled with smokey whiskey bars, corrupt politicians, insane gangsters, beautiful jazz singers, plot twists and martial arts. I read it in one sitting. Then I immediately read the sequel, Hard Rain, which is even better.
Rain Fall was named Best Novel of 2002 by Publisher's Weekly, and it's easy to see why. If you like your thrillers tough, honest, and fast-paced, check this series out.
35 人中、32人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Not your ordinary kung fu-type story
2004/3/26
形式:マスマーケット
I am happy to say I enjoyed both RAIN FALL and HARD RAIN by Barry Eisler, though I recommend starting with RAIN FALL. Much of what happened in the first book is alluded to in the second, and this could cause some confusion. If there is such a person as a likeable assassin, then John Rain is the man. He is caught between two cultures (John's father was Japanese and his mother American) and not really a part of either. More of his background is given in HARD RAIN, so this man-caught-in-the-middle character makes a lot of sense when you put together the fragments of his life. Still, Rain is definitely a man of action and the action comes fast and furious in both of these page turners. Even when you know there will be the inevitable showdown between Rain and the bad guy (or one of the good guys who may or not really be one of the bad guys), the plotting is so tense you wonder if he'll survive to make it into another novel by Eisler. It's nice of the author to translate the Japanese his characters speak for the reader and to explain all of the deadly Judo moves they make when fighting. I'm anxiously awaiting the third book in the series.
22 人中、21人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
A treat for all readers everywhere
2003/5/4
形式:ハードカバー
Barry Eisler mines his personal history (sufficient time spent in Japan to be steeped in its culture and traditions, training in the martial arts, etc) to create RAINFALL, a novel that is a treat for all readers everywhere.
And that knowledge litters this novel. Barry Eisler shares so much understanding of Japan and Japanese culture that this novel is a sheer joy to read. We learn in Chapter 10 of "...sado, the Japanese tea ceremony, [whose] practitioners strive through the practice of refined, ritualized movements in the preparation and serving of tea to achieve wabi and sabi: a sort of effortless elegance in thought and movement, a paring down to the essentials to more elegantly represent a larger, more important concept that would otherwise be obscured." We also learn, in the same chapter, more of John Rain's true nature, as he dispatches with ease, deftness, and an alarming amorality a threat, before continuing his pursuit of other characters, other information... Chapter 10 is itself an excellent fractal representation of the novel, a perfect rendering in writing of sado. Kudos to Eisler, for he achieves throughout this novel 'a sort of effortless elegance in thought and movement...'
A good writer faces difficult choices. To invest so much time and effort to create a fictional landscape and then drop into it real characters - i.e., laced with problems similar to our own so that their decisions and actions are organic, true to character - then only to move on to the next novel and start anew... or mine that fictional world for all that it is worth. Conan Doyle had this problem with Sherlock Holmes, to the point of frustration, of finally killing off Holmes, only to have to resuscitate Holmes after his readers' protestations. Barry Eisler faces a similar problem: how to keep the gold that is this book from a reverse transmutation to lead in subsequent entries, from being too similar to other typical plot-driven suspense and espionage novels. A second novel limning the further trials and tribulations of John Rain arrives in July 2003. I wonder which will triumph: John Rain, the conflicted, real protagonist who inhabits a universe of secrets, betrayals, and bad decisions AND that inspires us to learn more of that culture... or yet another plot-driven thriller, interchageable with most other novels from this genre?
I look forward to HARDRAIN with an equal measure of desire and dread. Nevertheless, I will read it; Barry Eisler's freshman effort is sufficiently superlative that it demands no less. Recommended.
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