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    Extremis
    Extremis
    Extremis
    Audiobook8 hours

    Extremis

    Written by Barry Eisler

    Narrated by Barry Eisler

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    About this audiobook

    Previously published as The Last Assassin

    Even for an average citizen, a love triangle is dangerous business. For assassin John Rain—”one of the most compelling lead characters in the genre” (USA Today)—it’s going to be downright deadly.

    When Rain learns that his former lover, Midori, has been raising their child in New York, Rain senses a chance for reconciliation, perhaps even for redemption.

    But Midori and the child are being watched by Rain’s enemies, and Rain’s sudden appearance puts them in terrible danger. To save them, Rain is forced to use the same deadly talents he had been hoping to leave behind. With the help of Tatsu, his one-time nemesis in the Japanese FBI; and Dox, the former Marine sniper whose good ol’ boy persona masks a killer as deadly as Rain himself, Rain races against time to bring his enemies into the open and eliminate them forever.

    Extremis was previously published as The Last Assassin, the fifth in the bestselling John Rain assassin series.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateFeb 11, 2014
    ISBN9781480553125
    Extremis
    Author

    Barry Eisler

    Barry Eisler spent three years in a covert position with the CIA’s Directorate of Operations, then worked as a technology lawyer and startup executive in Silicon Valley and Japan, earning his black belt at the Kodokan Judo Institute along the way. Eisler’s bestselling thrillers have won the Barry Award and the Gumshoe Award for Best Thriller, have been included in numerous “Best of” lists, have been translated into nearly twenty languages, and include the #1 bestseller Livia Lone. Eisler lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and, when he’s not writing novels, blogs about torture, civil liberties, and the rule of law. Learn more at www.barryeisler.com.

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    • 5/5
      I so enjoy listening to Barry Eisner read his books! Now that there are other lead characters it raised the tension during the action parts.
      Eisler is not just great with the plot & action. His astute description of personality & human emotion makes his characters come to life. I highly recommend his books.
    • 3/5
      Typical of this genre. A good thriller. Rain is a decent character.
    • 4/5
      Eisler writes all-consuming action-packed thrillers with a main character (John Rain) who pops off the page. As an assassin who loves jazz and rare single-malt scotch, Rain has his blind spots - usually women. With Barcelona, NYC and Tokyo as a backdrop, this one does not disappoint.
    • 3/5
      FreeLance assassin John Rain is looking over his shoulder. In his line of work he has made multiple very dangerous enemies. Now, because of a chance encounter, he has discovered that he has a son whom he must protect against these people. He flies to Tokyo with partner and love Delila and sharp-shooter, Doc to make sure the bad guys don’t het to his son.
    • 3/5
      First, I should disclose this isn't a genre I usually read, which probably contributed to me not being totally drawn in and hence paying more attention to writing technique decisions. The author will be speaking at a conference I'm attending, so I wanted to get familiar with his work.

      The first thing that struck me was, for an action book, the action seemed to take a long time to start. I'm surprised we weren't shown danger more immediately. I also noticed long passages with no dialogue, just a single character pondering the situation. This may have been intended as a change of pace but instead struck me as telling, not showing. I disliked the switching viewpoints, or at least the handling of them. (Gillian Flynn did an impressive job of this in Gone Girl; here, it feels clumsy).

      That said, I imagine if you are an existing fan of this author or the series, there is every reason for you to enjoy this book. I really liked Delilah, and the scenes when the sumo wrestlers first enter the plot were witty and enjoyable. I didn't care for the outcome for those characters, but that again is simply a reflection of my reading taste.

      This book seems also to be known by an alternate title, Extremis.
    • 4/5
      John Rain has an unusual profession - he's a paid assassin. And he is very good at his job. But this assignment is a little different. Instead of being hired to kill some high-profile crime boss, he is out to protect his own family. Traveling from Barcelona to Tokyo to NYC, Rain sets out to outsmart some very powerful people in the Yakuza crime syndicate. The pacing of this book is fast and furious - very fun to listen to and hard to put down. I was especially amazed at the amount of realistic detail in the book about how Rain would scope out a location or plan a mission. So much detail that it made me wonder what about Barry Eisler's background. Sure enough, he used to work for the CIA. Great mystery!
    • 3/5
      Listened to the audio book. Plot and writing were too formulaic.
    • 5/5
      feel sorry for him as he wants to leave his profession and have a kind of normal life yet loves the adrenalin rush.enjoyable read
    • 4/5
      A good thriller
    • 4/5
      Wow, Eisler's thriller aspect keeps getting better. John Rain has some hard choices to make and we're along for the ride. Ride a sumo wrestler? Why not, ha ha. Eisler brings back our entire cast of characters here.As I noted in my review of the prior book, Eisler's poetic prose is toned way down here as well. Maybe it appeals to a wider audience but I miss lingering over some of his earlier lyrical sentences.I see there is yet another Rain book for me to read after this one. Makes perfect sense, a loose end that was obvious from earlier.Taken as a series, this one is stronger than my individual book ratings. The characters and plots evolve and I'm finding the sum is even greater than its parts. That is a good way to contrast these versus Lee Child's Jack Reacher series. Child's individual books are strong but the series has only a hint of evolution and continuity, not nearly as strong.I am left wondering now, can a father be kept away from his son? And can Rain ever truly quit? He seems to make new enemies as he resolves each old one. Not good for a killer whose signature is death by natural causes.
    • 3/5
      Eisler dropped the ball with this book. I don't mind that Rain was getting philosophical in books 3 and 4, after all, he is aging and does have to consider his plans for leaving "the life". But this book was more like a soap opera than an assassin's story.I wasn't too smitten with the change in points of view (this started in book 4) since I read these books because Rain is interesting... the other characters are just side-kicks for him so I don't really want to see inside their heads. And Delilah's behavior by visiting Midori simply didn't make sense for the story, or for her character, or considering the relationship she and Rain have.Anyway... I like the suspense and butt-kicking and outside the lines justice that this series started with. I don't like the sob stories that it's turning into. I hope Rain rediscovers his manhood in the next book.
    • 1/5
      Detective Rain is too perfect, his girlfriend/assistant is too perfect and the the story is too pat
    • 4/5
      John Rain, the half-Japanese, half-Caucasian professional assassin seen in Eisler's previous books, finds himself more socialized than ever, a situation that brings its own dangers. Learning that Midori, his one-time lover (he'd killed her father in the first book, Rain Fall), has given birth to a son -- his son -- he's determined to be part of their lives, but first, he must eliminate the threat to them, and him, posed by the Japanese gangster who holds a grudge, again from an earlier book. To this end, he reluctantly enlists the aid of Dox, an old sniper buddy from his days serving in Nam for the US (and working for the CIA), and Delilah, an Israeli agent with whom he's had an on-again, off-again affair.Complicated? Yes. Absorbing? Definitely. The novelty of the first book -- that of the detailed depiction of a paid killer with a code of ethics -- has worn a bit thin, but the involvement of other characters (Dox is a breath of fresh air) and other povs (mainly Delilah's) add variety and help keep the series from going stale. Still, I can't help feeling Eisler meant it when he said somewhere that he has an end point in mind and I suspect it will come soon. Rain is a tough character to maintain over time. To stay interesting, he has to grow as a person, which means in this case, develop emotional ties, and a conscience. And it's those very things that will make him like many other characters populating suspense novels.Eisler knows his stuff, and the details of the hunt is what makes this book, as the others in the series, unique, along with the unusual perspective of a man who kills for a living, all for a good cause, or so he tells himself. He allows himself to be used as a tool for what he hopes are the right reasons, and it's the psychology of Rain and his part of the world that keeps me hooked on this series.
    • 5/5
      This might have been the best John Rain book so far (although I would still prefer that Eisler drop the third person narrative that he now sprinkles into his books). All through the book I kept wondering how Eisler could possibly provide a satisfactory ending (as frequent readers of my reviews will note, I am often critical of weak endings), but Eisler surprised me and ended the book just right! Please read the John Rain novels, but please, please, read them in order.