This is the second book that features killer-for-hire John Rain. And it is fantastic. Continuing John Rain's story eighteen months after the conclusion of Rain Fall, Barry Eisler's Hard Rain finds Rain in Osaka, Japan, preparing to leave Japan and the many people that want to see him dead. But he is contacted by a friend/acquaintance in the Japanese FBI for a "favor." Naturally, this "favor" requires Rain's special talents of making a killing look like natural causes. And … more