John Rain Books in Order

In Tokyo, half American, half Japanese assassin John Rain makes his hits look like natural deaths. When a job on a corrupt official draws him toward the man’s daughter, jazz pianist Midori Kawamura, Rain finds himself hunted by the CIA and yakuza.

John Rain is hiding in Japan, trying to leave the killing business behind, when a relentless cop forces him to hunt Murakami, a vicious rival assassin. The job pulls Rain through underground fight clubs, hostess bars, and a covert war between yakuza and spies.

After disappearing to Brazil, John Rain is dragged back to work by the CIA and ordered to take out a ruthless arms dealer in Southeast Asia. A rival assassin, a dangerous lover, and a suspected setup turn the mission into a deadly game of survival.

Nearly killed on a job in Hong Kong, John Rain winds up working for Mossad and sent to Manila with sniper Dox to eliminate a target. When Rain’s conscience complicates the hit, he discovers that his new employers may want him dead next.

When John Rain learns that former lover Midori is secretly raising their son in New York, he sees a chance at redemption. His sudden appearance draws deadly attention, forcing Rain, Dox, Tatsu, and Delilah into a brutal campaign against old enemies.

Living under a new identity in Paris with Delilah, John Rain thinks he is nearly out of the life. Then rogue CIA operator Jim Hilger kidnaps Dox and blackmails Rain into three assassinations, sending him across the globe and into a trap he can barely escape.

Over a romantic dinner on the Île Saint Louis, John Rain spots a surveillance team closing in on Mossad operative Delilah. A quiet night in Paris turns into a tight, violent test of trust where business and love collide in the worst possible way.

Colonel Scott Horton recruits John Rain, Dox, Ben Treven, and Daniel Larison for a covert mission to kill three powerful Americans tied to an alleged coup. As the bodies fall, the four operators realize they are pawns in a much larger false flag plot.

In 1972 Tokyo, a young John Rain works as a CIA bagman until a routine cash drop explodes into violence and earns him a yakuza death sentence. To survive, he accepts a high risk assassination that threatens the woman he has come to love.

Returning to Tokyo in 1982 after mercenary work abroad, John Rain finds the contract killing world dominated by Victor, a sadistic rival who gives him a choice: murder a government minister or be eliminated, a job complicated by the minister’s alluring wife.

When Seattle sex crimes detective Livia Lone survives a hit linked to an international child exploitation ring, she turns to sniper Dox for help. Retired assassin John Rain and a team of black ops veterans join them to dismantle a conspiracy inside government.

Assistant US attorney Alondra Diaz pursues billionaire predator Andrew Schrader, unaware he holds kompromat on powerful officials. As killers close in, Dox, Larison, Livia Lone, John Rain, and Delilah join forces to keep her alive and weaponize Schrader’s damning videos.