The Khmer Kill: A Dox Short Story (Kindle Single) (7 page)

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!

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!

For most couples, a quiet dinner for two at Auberge de la Reine Blanche on the Ile Saint Louis would be just the thing to smooth out the complications in a romance. But for gorgeous Mossad operative Delilah and trying-to-retire contract killer John Rain, nothing is ever easy, and when Rain sees a crew of hard-looking men setting up outside the restaurant, he realizes someone has been bringing her work home with her. Is it a hit — or something even worse? When it comes to killing, business and pleasure are the most dangerous mix of all. The download comes with an essay called Personal Safety Tips from Assassin John Rain, which includes information that will be at least as valuable to civilians as it has been to Rain.

“Rain’s combination of quirks and proficiency is the stuff great characters are made of.”
—Entertainment Weekly

“Eisler combines the insouciance of Ian Fleming, the realistic detail of Tom Clancy, the ennui of Graham Greene and the prose power of John le Carré.”
—News-Press

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Paris Is a Bitch
today!

B
arry 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 International Judo Center along the way. Eisler’s bestselling thrillers have won the Barry Award and the Gumshoe Award for Best Thriller of the Year, have been included in numerous “Best Of” lists, and have been translated into nearly twenty languages. Eisler lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and, when not writing novels, he blogs about torture, civil liberties, and the rule of law at
www.BarryEisler.com
.

Novels

Rain Fall

Hard Rain

Rain Storm

Killing Rain

The Last Assassin

Requiem For An Assassin

Fault Line

Inside Out

The Detachment

Short Fiction

The Lost Coast

Paris Is A Bitch

The Khmer Kill

Essays

Be the Monkey: A Conversation About the New World of Publishing

The Ass Is A Poor Receptacle For The Head

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