The Khmer Kill: A Dox Short Story (Kindle Single)

than maybe he already had.
    Shit, what was wrong with him? She was sweet and smart and strong. And delicious on top of it. He liked her. He admired her. What was his problem? Was he just afraid that maybe in some ways she might have been trying to manipulate him? Why was he so reluctant to get involved?
    Fuck it. There was nothing he could do.
    He thought of the boy he’d almost killed the night before. And the rouged, doped-up girls he’d seen in front of that dim storefront earlier.
    He smacked the back of a fist into the wall next to him. Christ, what was with this country?
    He stayed like that, leaning against the door, thinking. Then he stood and paced for a while. Eventually, he found himself looking out his window onto the sunny courtyard below. He felt better, somehow. Calmer.
    He wondered whether they really couldn’t make a decent martini. It did seem a shame he hadn’t properly tested that proposition.
    And Gant had said Sorm would be harder to get to in Pailin province, where he lived, because foreigners are more conspicuous there. Be interesting to test that theory, too.
    He thought of Chantrea, the way she’d said,
We have to do what we can, yes? Even if it’s just a little.
    Maybe there wasn’t much he could do. A problem this widespread and malignant, it seemed like taking out one man would be no more than a fart in a gale. But all at once, he decided he wanted to believe otherwise.
    Because sometimes you had to act as if something was true, even if it might not be.



the detachment
a john rain thriller
    John Rain is back. And “the most charismatic assassin since James Bond”
(San Francisco Chronicle)
is up against his most formidable enemy yet: the nexus of political, military, media, and corporate factions known only as the Oligarchy.
    When legendary black ops veteran Colonel Scott “Hort” Horton tracks Rain down in Tokyo, Rain can’t resist the offer: a multi-million dollar payday for the “natural causes” demise of three ultra-high-profile targets who are dangerously close to launching a coup in America.
    But the opposition on this job is going to be too much for even Rain to pull it off alone. He’ll need a detachment of other deniable irregulars: his partner, the former Marine sniper, Dox. Ben Treven, a covert operator with ambivalent motives and conflicted loyalties. And Larison, a man with a hair trigger and a secret he’ll kill to protect.
    From the shadowy backstreets of Tokyo and Vienna, to the deceptive glitz and glamour of Los Angeles and Las Vegas, and finally to a Washington, D.C. in a permanent state of war, these four lone wolf killers will have to survive presidential hit teams, secret CIA prisons, and a national security state as obsessed with guarding its own secrets as it is with invading the privacy of the populace.
    But first, they’ll have to survive each other.
    The Detachment
is what fans of Eisler, “one of the most talented and literary writers in the thriller genre” (
Chicago Sun-Times
), have been waiting for: the worlds of the award-winning Rain series, and of the bestselling
Fault Line
and
Inside Out
, colliding in one explosive thriller as real as today’s headlines and as frightening as tomorrow’s.
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The Detachment
today!



the lost coast
a daniel larison short story
    By internationally bestselling author Barry Eisler,
The Lost Coast
is a dark short story featuring rogue black-ops soldier Daniel Larison, last seen in Eisler’s
Inside Out
, which
Op-Ed News
called a “thriller as good or better than any of Grisham’s” and
Library Journal
called “a relentless and revelatory look into the human cost of those who torture on behalf of their country.”
    For Larison, a man off the grid and on the run, the Lost Coast seems like a perfect place to disappear for a while. But when three twisted locals decide Larison looks like an easy target, they unleash a vengeful and dangerous predator with a personal score to settle. Find out why
Entertainment Weekly
called Eisler’s work “furious and creative.”
    “If you’re a fan of Eisler specifically, or thriller fiction in general, don’t even hesitate. Well worth the money.”
—J.A. Konrath
    WARNING: this story is intended for mature audiences, and contains depictions of sexual activity…though perhaps not in the way you're expecting.
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The Lost Coast
today!



paris is a bitch
a john rain short story
    For most couples, a quiet dinner for two at Auberge de la Reine Blanche on the Ile