This novel of a Japanese-American family is "a tender tale of secrecy and obligation, introducing us to a Hawaii the tourists never see" (Glamour).

When Spencer Fujii's grandparents arrived in Hawaii at the turn of the twentieth century, they brought Japanese customs with them. Five decades later, those traditional expectations still shape the lives of the Fujii family.

Spencer, the son of first generation

Now Rain has a new employer, the Mossad, which wants him to fix a "problem" in Manila with the aide of his new partner, Dox, whose good-ol'-boy persona masks a sniper as deadly as Rain himself. He also has a new hope: By using his talents in the service of something good, he might atone for all the lives he has taken. But when Rain's conscience causes him to botch an assignment, he finds that he's the Mossad's next target....

Barry Eisler has given us a new hero - Japanese-American John Rain, the cynical, romantic, conscientious assassin - one of the most clever and vibrant protagonists we've seen in years. In this new novel, Rain has fled to Brazil to escape the killing business and the enemies encircling him. But his knack for making death seem to have been from "natural causes" and his ability to operate unnoticed in Asia continue to create unwelcome demand for his