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dsrtaoI seem to have fallen a little behind.
Rain Fall
Hard Rain
Rain Storm
Killing Rain
The Last Assassin
Requiem For An Assassin
Fault Line
Inside Out
-- all by Barry Eisler
The Bricklayer
Agent X
-- by Noah Boyd
Quarter Share
Half Share
Full Share
-- by Nathan Lowell
Stand By, Stand By
-- by Chris Ryan
The Eisler books: ok, so there's this assassin what only kills bad people. He has rules, you know. No women or children, and only principals -- no killing random henchmen, please, he's too l33t. His name is John Rain. Yes, that's why the stupid title scheme. In theory Mr. Rain's specialty is in killing people so that it looks like natural causes, but he really only does that a few times in the whole series. He kills lots of people, often for very little reason, and never suffers any emotional repercussions. The author likes to namedrop moderately expensive knives, for no obvious reason. _Fault Line_ and _Inside Out_ are nominally about an American ex-Special Forces agent who discovers his government is untrustworthy, and kills lots of people. However, it's tied to John Rain through secondary characters and apparently they will unite to kill people together in a book coming this fall.
Noah Boyd, on the other hand, is an ex-FBI agent who writes about an ex-FBI agent who is called back to solve some special cases, even though he does not play well with others and cannot respect authority. The ex-FBI agent (fictional) only kills bad guys, and only in the middle and ends of the books. Due to a lack of available characters, the exciting twist near the end of _Agent X_ was rather predictable.
Chris Ryan is an ex-SAS soldier who writes about an SAS soldier whose family is killed by an IRA bomb. Soon he swears revenge and eventually gets to kill people. It had some of the tone of James Herriot's veterinary life books. Make of that what you will.
Finally, the books by Nathan Lowell contain no killing people whatsoever, no wars, no soldiers, no assassins, and almost no politics. Instead we get the refreshing tale of an orphan who joins the Space Merchant Marine Service, rises through the enlisted ranks, and eventually goes off to the academy. Both calm and engaging; a perfect antidote for kill kill kill.
Rain Fall
Hard Rain
Rain Storm
Killing Rain
The Last Assassin
Requiem For An Assassin
Fault Line
Inside Out
-- all by Barry Eisler
The Bricklayer
Agent X
-- by Noah Boyd
Quarter Share
Half Share
Full Share
-- by Nathan Lowell
Stand By, Stand By
-- by Chris Ryan
The Eisler books: ok, so there's this assassin what only kills bad people. He has rules, you know. No women or children, and only principals -- no killing random henchmen, please, he's too l33t. His name is John Rain. Yes, that's why the stupid title scheme. In theory Mr. Rain's specialty is in killing people so that it looks like natural causes, but he really only does that a few times in the whole series. He kills lots of people, often for very little reason, and never suffers any emotional repercussions. The author likes to namedrop moderately expensive knives, for no obvious reason. _Fault Line_ and _Inside Out_ are nominally about an American ex-Special Forces agent who discovers his government is untrustworthy, and kills lots of people. However, it's tied to John Rain through secondary characters and apparently they will unite to kill people together in a book coming this fall.
Noah Boyd, on the other hand, is an ex-FBI agent who writes about an ex-FBI agent who is called back to solve some special cases, even though he does not play well with others and cannot respect authority. The ex-FBI agent (fictional) only kills bad guys, and only in the middle and ends of the books. Due to a lack of available characters, the exciting twist near the end of _Agent X_ was rather predictable.
Chris Ryan is an ex-SAS soldier who writes about an SAS soldier whose family is killed by an IRA bomb. Soon he swears revenge and eventually gets to kill people. It had some of the tone of James Herriot's veterinary life books. Make of that what you will.
Finally, the books by Nathan Lowell contain no killing people whatsoever, no wars, no soldiers, no assassins, and almost no politics. Instead we get the refreshing tale of an orphan who joins the Space Merchant Marine Service, rises through the enlisted ranks, and eventually goes off to the academy. Both calm and engaging; a perfect antidote for kill kill kill.
