Book Club: The Last Assassin

"The Last Assassin" by Barry Eisler, is the 5th book in the 'Rain' series. (John Rain is a Japanese-American assassin.) It's falls along the line of the Jason Bourne series -- but with an added sexual tension/relationship perspective, wrapped up in some luxury international globe-trotting.

Anyways, this last book (in hardcover) was pretty good. Better than its predecessor, for sure. There's a very, very good scene towards the end of the book - at the climax - that is..extremely tense and upsetting but also...exciting. (I'm at a loss for descriptive adjectives right now.) It involves an Israeli colleague of Rain's, Delilah. She's infiltrated a very private, very exclusive, and most likely illegal, hostess club in Tokyo in an effort to gain access to Rain's target. She's a beauty - fit, blonde, sexy, and an A#1 badass. She's posing as a French expat applying for a hostess job at the club and she's sitting with "the bad guys" wowing the hell out of most of them. She's also wired - an internal earpiece and a wired mic sewn into the strap of her evening wear.

Rather than continue with a possible plot spoiler, I'll just recommend the series. Think of it as beach reading for guys.