Rating: 9

Trademark Eisler: Ice cold revenge and firecracker hot sex from a ruthless assassin. Cast the “Lush Life” against the backdrop of the ultrahip Tokyo skyline and it doesn’t get any better than that.

I loved this second installment in the Rain series so much that, before I’d finished the second chapter, I rushed to pick up the third and fourth books and added them to the TBR.

Like Eisler’s first book, RAIN FALL, this volume features the tortured John Rain caught between both the sketchy dealings of the CIA and the rampant corruption of the Japanese government… only this time it’s more personal.

And I’m not going to tell you why.

Hands down, Eisler is the reigning king of the assassin thriller. Look for REQUIEM FOR AN ASSASSIN—the sixth in the Rain series—coming May 22.