A Lonely Resurrection

sucker is you.”
    To Alan Eisler, Judy Eisler, Dan and Naomi Levin, Matthew Powers, Owen Rennert, David and Shari Rosenblatt, Ted Schlein, Hank Shiffman, and Pete Wenzel, for helpful comments on the manuscript and many valuable suggestions and insights along the way.
    To Rick Kennedy and the staff of Tokyo Q, for introducing John Rain to several of the Tokyo bars and restaurants that appear in this book.
    To the proprietors of the following establishments, all wonderful places to call one’s office: Bar Satoh in Miyakojima-ku, Osaka; Café Borrone in Menlo Park, California; Las Chicas in Aoyama, Tokyo; the public library in Mountain View, California; These Library Lounge in Nishi Azabu, Tokyo.
    Most of all, to a great editor, my fiercest supporter, and my best friend—my wife, Laura.

ALSO BY BARRY EISLER
Novels
    John Rain series
    A Clean Kill in Tokyo (Originally published as Rain Fall)
    A Lonely Resurrection (Originally published as Hard Rain)
    Winner Take All (Originally published as Rain Storm)
    Redemption Games (Originally published as Killing Rain)
    Extremis (Originally published as The Last Assassin)
    The Killer Ascendant (Originally published as Requiem for an Assassin)
    Ben Treven series
    Fault Line
    Inside Out
    Rain/Treven combined
    The Detachment (an Amazon exclusive)

Short Stories
    The Lost Coast
    Paris is a Bitch
    The Khmer Kill (an Amazon exclusive)

A LONELY RESURRECTION
Copyright © 2003, 2013 by Barry Eisler. All rights reserved. Originally publishedin as HARD RAIN in 2003.
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    Edition: January 2013