For many years, John Rain, part American, part Japanese, has lurked in the shadows of
modern Tokyo as a problem-solver
of sorts - that is, if the problems are human and cease to inconvenience anyone once they stop breathing, but half a lifetime ago, he used to function as a CIA dirty tricks operative. Then, what seems like a standard and relatively simple killing, sets in motion a chain of coincidences that are too odd to dismiss and within a short time, John''s position changes from hunter to prey, from stalker to stalked. And it could not come at a worse time, because John finds himself becoming deeply involved with a
woman every bit as complex as he is himself. A woman who might hold the answer to several questions that John finds himself asking. A woman who will certainly be placed in deadly peril by John''s involvement in her life.