Just Perfect

A more gentle & meandering story than normal. A story of transition. New connections and old one’s cemented. The introduction of Delilah a Mossad Agent & Dox, a Marine sniper. A CIA handler of dubious intrigue called Hiliger. The stage is set.

I am becoming a big fan of Barry Eisler's "John Rain" thrillers. Eisler's writing style is exquisite, his characters are credible, and the plot sequences are engaging and action-packed. I found myself looking forward to reading several chapters each evening and it never disappointed me. I am certainly going to continue with this series and, most probably, with other Eisler titles.

Rain is awesome. PERIOD. He knows everyplace he travels, intimately. The action scenes are just as exciting as the interaction with Dox in this Rain edition. Rain definitely adds to my likeness of the book. Well blended front to back!

The third installment of the John Rain series kept up the momentum from the first two. It was full of action, fast-paced, and fun to read. Getting to know Dox as a character was a blast, too. I hope to see him again. I also hope to see more of Delilah. There are so many very interesting characters being thrown into the mix.

I also appreciated that this book was the first to truly acknowledge John's age. The book was published in 2004, and John fought in Vietnam. That doesn't necessarily mean that he's elderly, but he's certainly not necessarily a spring chicken either.

In any event, I haven't breezed through a series of books like this in a long time, so this is a really fun change of pace for me. I can't wait to start book four.

Four out of five stars.

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It has a fine story, great action scenes, you don’t know who to trust until the last pages, the characters sound a bit more believable than in previous books (maybe for me because I’m a Westerner and this book deals a lot more with them than with the Japanese). This series has been a pleasant surprise, I’ll continue reading it :)

Another dangerous mission for John Rain. Although, his missions usually go pretty smoothly, I wasn’t expecting the end fight to be so tough. I very much liked that the author made Rain’s adversary just a tough as he is. The introduction of the other assassins was very cool too. I hope to read more stories that include them both.

Enjoyable research-based cloak and dagger read. #3 in the John Rain series, but more of a stand-alone than book 2 was. Rain tries to disappear in Brazil, but his CIA handler in Tokyo tracks him down with another kill-for-hire job. The mark is an arms dealer, but Rain is not the only one interested in the dealer's welfare. He has to sort out who is an ally and who is an enemy in order to keep himself alive.

DNF
Although I kind of like the John Rain books, this just couldn’t hold my attention. There were great parts of the book dedicated to giving background and the pace was far too slow for my likings.

More in-depth (counter) surveillance tactics, combat and some predictable couplings; but nothing new and not as good as the first two instalments. I gave up three hours from the end as I had lost track and interest of what was supposed to be happening.

Time to change authors for a while.

Spy novel about stopping weapons dealers, finding love while having a difficult job, and cross cultural appreciation.

This is probably not my favorite Barry Eisler novel, but he has a very good narrator’s voice….pretty sexy. For the first 2/3 of the book I didn’t really LIKE any of the characters, except the beautiful blonde Mossad agent. Things started to fall into place and I remembered The Dox character from novels down the road. His “voice” is excellent and charming and I want him to be a good guy. He proves himself to John Rains by the end, so then, I really liked three characters.

Can't think of anything bad to say about any John Rain novel. This was great as were all the previous. I am planning on reading the whole series and know I will not be disappointed. Barry Eisler is a very good writer and I have enjoyed everything of his that I have read. As always, can't wait for the next!

This series has been a guilty pleasure, but this one didn't hold my interest very well and took me far too long to finish.

If you've been following the series to this point, you know exactly what's going to happen once things kick off. These books are a mix of the protagonist verbosely describing mundane aspects of spycraft or city travelogue, someone getting brutally murdered for "crossing a line", pining after a girl that got away but not really - and the bad guys getting summarily dispatched while the protagonist narrowly escapes death. Repeat.

It was a fun ride while the novelty lasted, but I think I'm done with this series.