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John Rain

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John Rain	comment	A series of novels by author and former CIA employee Barry Eisler. Deals with Hitman with a Heart John Rain, who specializes in killing in such a way that it looks like an accident or natural causes. Rain's years of training in the Special Forces, CIA, and as an assassin for hire manifest themselves in a deep-seated paranoia and an inability to trust anyone, which complicates his personal relationships.The novel Rain Fall was made into a 2009 movie, starring Kippei Shina and Gary Oldman.A TV series based on the novels is currently in development, with Keanu Reeves onboard to star in and Executive Produce, alongside Chad Stahelski and David Leitch.
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John Rain / int_10cdfe4b	type	Fall Guy
John Rain / int_10cdfe4b	comment	Biddle, the CIA station chief in Hard Rain, is running an operation that's been officially shut down, and using Kanezaki as the Fall Guy by arranging to frame him as a rogue.
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John Rain / int_12575a9f	type	Friendly Sniper
John Rain / int_12575a9f	comment	Friendly Sniper: Former Marine sniper Dox. Dox is actually short for "Unorthodox," a nickname he received for not fitting the Cold Sniper stereoptype. Interestingly though, when he does get behind the scope, he totally becomes more focused and cold.
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John Rain / int_141f6a73	type	Artistic License â€“ Martial Arts
John Rain / int_141f6a73	comment	Artistic License – Martial Arts: Averted. The martial arts represented are realistic, brutal and efficient.
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John Rain / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
John Rain / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: In Redemption Games, Rain freezes up when he's about to kill a man with a son the same age Rain was when he was orphaned.
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John Rain / int_14e1f6b2	type	Assassins Are Always Betrayed
John Rain / int_14e1f6b2	comment	Assassins Are Always Betrayed: In A Clean Kill In Tokyo, Rain discovers that he's been working all along for his CIA nemesis from The Vietnam War. In Extremis, Rain goes to great lengths to protect Midori, who ends up betraying him to the Yakuza in the belief that he'll always be a threat to their son. In Requiem for an Assassin, Dox is kidnapped to force Rain to do three hits. Rain doesn't have to be told that one of the hits will be a trap, to ensure he won't survive to take revenge. In The Detachment, Horton hires Rain, Dox, Treven and Larison to forestall The Coup which he claims is being plotted by senior American officials. As with Hilger, the third 'target' is a set-up, Horton is manipulating everyone and intends to Leave No Witnesses.
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John Rain / int_153299b4	type	Boisterous Bruiser
John Rain / int_153299b4	comment	Boisterous Bruiser: Dox is a huge, very friendly man who LOVES a good fight.
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John Rain / int_16ca6ce9	type	SlidingDownTheSlipperySlope
John Rain / int_16ca6ce9	comment	Sliding Down The Slippery Slope: A Discussed Trope in Hard Rain with various people being deliberately desensitized to killing, espionage or prostitution, in order to draw them into those worlds.
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John Rain / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
John Rain / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: In the later novels, Rain is at least 70, but still a suave, massively badass assassin with fine tastes in whiskey and jazz.
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John Rain / int_1a74b900	type	World of Badass
John Rain / int_1a74b900	comment	World of Badass: Given that the series focuses on clandestine operations and hired killers, it's no surprise that nearly every major character is some form of highly-trained law enforcement agent or special operations veteran.
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John Rain / int_1a8dc238	type	Underestimating Badassery
John Rain / int_1a8dc238	comment	Underestimating Badassery: Rain is an average-sized, middle aged Asian man who doesn't look to be much of a threat. A veritable army of mercenaries, goons, and assassins have discovered to their own peril just how false that is. This is actually mentioned as one of Rain's distinct advantages; while others (such as Larison) radiate a dangerous demeanor, Rain does not, allowing him to quickly close in for the kill without alerting suspicion.
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John Rain / int_1c785368	type	Badass Israeli
John Rain / int_1c785368	comment	Badass Israeli: Mossad agent and Rain's sometime lover Delilah, as well as other members of her team like Gil and Boaz.
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John Rain / int_24f4c82a	type	Semper Fi
John Rain / int_24f4c82a	comment	Similarly, although Dox was respected in the Marines for his sniper skills, he was shunned because he didn't fit the Cold Sniper stereotype.
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John Rain / int_27dae4f0	type	Rogue Agent
John Rain / int_27dae4f0	comment	Rogue Agent: Biddle, the CIA station chief in Hard Rain, is running an operation that's been officially shut down, and using Kanezaki as the Fall Guy by arranging to frame him as a rogue. Tatsu is running his own Cowboy Cop operation to assist reformist elements of Japanese society. He tries to recruit Rain as his assassin, with limited success. Jim Hilger is a CIA agent running the deniable kind of rogue operation, who's eventually revealed to be a Well-Intentioned Extremist and genuine rogue agent. Daniel Larison is an ISA operative who plans to blackmail the US government for a fortune in diamonds, by threatening to release video of prisoners being tortured. Colonel Horton's role is ambiguous — is he trying to stop a Day of the Jackboot like he claims, or is he one of the conspirators looking to advance his own interests?
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John Rain / int_2804d516	type	Master of None
John Rain / int_2804d516	comment	Master of None: Ben Treven. While he's a world-class gunfighter in his own right, he lacks a specialty when paired up with the rest of the Detachment. He does not have Rain's martial-arts skills, Dox's sniping, or Larison's pure bloodlust.
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John Rain / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
John Rain / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: Rain is this to what few adversaries of his who manage to stay alive, with Yamaoto scared shitless of him and still taking precautions against him years after they cross paths.
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John Rain / int_2ce97e0c	type	Prove I Am Not Bluffing
John Rain / int_2ce97e0c	comment	Prove I Am Not Bluffing: When Rain first meets rookie CIA agent Kanezaki he breaks the neck of Kanezaki's bodyguard (after the bodyguard had already been immobilized) just to make it clear he really is a cold-blooded killer.
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John Rain / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
John Rain / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: In later books, the sociopathic killer Larison is revealed to be a huge Tolkein fan, lampshading it by admitting that there's a lot people don't know about him. Rain also sometimes notes that Dox is far more well-versed in South Asian culture than one might expect, due to living and operating in areas such as Thailand and the Philippines for decades.
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John Rain / int_30de7a51	type	Chivalrous Pervert
John Rain / int_30de7a51	comment	Chivalrous Pervert: Dox will hit on any attractive woman he meets, but he's generally respectful and doesn't overstep the bounds of decency.
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John Rain / int_31ae6183	type	Got Me Doing It
John Rain / int_31ae6183	comment	Got Me Doing It: Rain occasionally grumbles that some of Dox's mannerisms are wearing off on him.
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John Rain / int_361a1d26	type	Anguished Declaration of Love
John Rain / int_361a1d26	comment	Anguished Declaration of Love: Delilah does this during an argument with Rain in The Killer Ascendant. It's just as well, as Rain was just about to walk out on her (she'd called in a colleague from Mossad against his wishes, which Rain viewed as betrayal of his trust). Rain is noticeably thrown by the Love Confession, comes to his senses and accepts the help of her colleague.
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John Rain / int_37499c8	type	OnceAnEpisode
John Rain / int_37499c8	comment	Once an Episode: In nearly every book, a significant portion of a chapter will be focused on Rain (or his associates) shopping and picking up a variety of innocuous items. These items will then become a Chekhov's Armoury for the latest assassination.
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John Rain / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
John Rain / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: The people John Rain works with get annoyed with his constant lecturing on security. Turns out a lot of it is justified.
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John Rain / int_3dcc914f	type	Took a Level in Kindness
John Rain / int_3dcc914f	comment	Took a Level in Kindness: Rain and, in later books, Larison both exhibit this over time, mainly due to developing a network of people they can trust. They both blame it on Dox.
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John Rain / int_3dd3951e	type	Cowboy Cop
John Rain / int_3dd3951e	comment	Tatsu is running his own Cowboy Cop operation to assist reformist elements of Japanese society. He tries to recruit Rain as his assassin, with limited success.
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John Rain / int_3f0b2f50	type	Make It Look Like an Accident
John Rain / int_3f0b2f50	comment	Make It Look Like an Accident: Rain's specialty is assassinations that look either like accidents or natural causes. For example, he stages a bike accident for a target who's an avid cyclist; he causes another target's pacemaker to fail.
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John Rain / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
John Rain / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Tatsu, which Rain calls him on. Colonel Horton in The Detachment.
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John Rain / int_416a2a0d	type	Torture Always Works
John Rain / int_416a2a0d	comment	Torture Always Works: Discussed Trope in Requiem for an Assassin. Hilger waterboards Dox for information on how to contact Rain. He points out that Torture Is Ineffective if you're just fishing for information, as you've no idea what's true and what's being made up to make the pain stop. However for specific information that you can verify once you have it, it's very effective.
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John Rain / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
John Rain / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: Eisler delights in describing the intricacies of whatever city the protagonists find themselves in, with particular interest for Tokyo and Paris.
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John Rain / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
John Rain / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: To say Rain is a brutal fighter is an understatement.
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John Rain / int_4a875876	type	Yellowface
John Rain / int_4a875876	comment	Yellowface: Rain is half Japanese/half White-American, but has undergone plastic surgery and uses hair dye to appear full-blooded Japanese in order to stand out less when he's in Japan. Ironically, he usually goes by his American name, John Rain, in place of his given Japanese name, Junichi Fujiwara.
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John Rain / int_4c8e8078	type	All of the Other Reindeer
John Rain / int_4c8e8078	comment	All of the Other Reindeer: Delilah's job with Mossad is to seduce targets to get information. She's routinely despised by her colleagues for her methods, although they have no problem using the intelligence she provides. Similarly, although Dox was respected in the Marines for his sniper skills, he was shunned because he didn't fit the Cold Sniper stereotype. Rain himself; when growing up in Japan and the United States he was bullied for his foreign blood. This only increased his sense of isolation from society.
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John Rain / int_4cacfcc3	type	Honey Trap
John Rain / int_4cacfcc3	comment	Honey Trap Delilah is a Femme Fatale Spy for the Mossad. Rain realises something is seriously wrong when Harry hitches up with a beautiful hostess at an expensive nightclub. Harry refuses to listen to Rain's warning, and is murdered when she lures him up onto a roof where his death by suicide can be faked. In Redemption Games, Rain gleefully mocks Dox when he almost takes a Thai ladyboy back to his hotel. Rain realises almost too late that [s]he was separating them for a kidnapping team, the idea being that if the notoriously paranoid Rain suspected something was off-key, he'd just assume his Gut Feeling was reacting to her actually being a man. An Invoked Trope when the team plant a hidden camera in the room of a target and accidently catch him having sex with an escort girl. Dox then rings the target up and pretends to using the girl for a badger game, so he can lure the target out of his room; ostensibly to pay the blackmail money but actually to be killed.
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John Rain / int_4de1a4f7	type	Improvised Weapon
John Rain / int_4de1a4f7	comment	Improvised Weapon: A necessity in Japan where Rain finds it difficult to get hold of a firearm on short notice.
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John Rain / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
John Rain / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: Tatsu tries to play on this to recruit Rain for his own plans, but Rain is too cynical to really take it on board. In Redemption Games, Rain hesitates to kill a target on seeing he has a son the same age as himself when he lost his own father. He eventually kills the man, but gives all the money from that contract to their family, pretending the target left it for them in his will.
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John Rain / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
John Rain / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: After Rain breaks up with Delilah, he runs across a loud-mouthed Jerkass who annoyed him earlier and shoves the man's mobile phone between his teeth, proving that you can fit a square peg in a round hole if you shove hard enough.
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John Rain / int_5571b706	type	I Work Alone
John Rain / int_5571b706	comment	I Work Alone: Averted; Rain would prefer to work alone, but it's just not practical or even safe. Mossad agent Boaz tells Rain that no-one works alone any more, and Rain is the only operator he knows who still insists on doing so. Even Dox wonders if their skills have become meaningless in an increasingly surveillance-heavy world, where the only way to keep working is when Big Brother Is Employing You.
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John Rain / int_566f1565	type	10-Minute Retirement
John Rain / int_566f1565	comment	10-Minute Retirement: Rain keeps flirting with the idea of retiring, but never goes through with it due to circumstances or the belief that he can't give up the life.
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John Rain / int_5d9b8c3a	type	Femme Fatale Spy
John Rain / int_5d9b8c3a	comment	Delilah is a Femme Fatale Spy for the Mossad.
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John Rain / int_6201e8b0	type	I Have Your Wife
John Rain / int_6201e8b0	comment	I Have Your Wife In Requiem for an Assassin, Hilger kidnaps Dox to force Rain to carry out several hits for him. Of course both sides know that Hilger can't afford to let either of them live, because they'd come after him for revenge. In The Detachment, after discovering that Horton has betrayed them, our (anti)heroes kidnap his daughter and hold her for ransom. Because of the above incident, Dox is most uncomfortable with this.
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John Rain / int_62fd5552	type	Bavarian Fire Drill
John Rain / int_62fd5552	comment	Bavarian Fire Drill: On seeing the spotter for a hit squad sent to kill him, Rain walks up to the man and tells him there's been a mistake — he's not the man they've been sent to kill and his friends are waiting for them at the hotel to discuss the matter (actually Rain has just killed them). The man is so confused he walks along with Rain until he's in an area with no witnesses where Rain can kill him too.
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John Rain / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
John Rain / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: Rain weeps on holding his son in his arms for the first and last time. Dox cries in a release of tension after being rescued by Rain Just in Time after days of confinement and torture.
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John Rain / int_65bc92fc	type	Four-Temperament Ensemble
John Rain / int_65bc92fc	comment	Four-Temperament Ensemble: In the titular novel, the Detachment fits very well into this: Rain: Melancholic. Dox: Sanguine. Larison: Choleric. Treven: Phlegmatic.
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John Rain / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
John Rain / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: Like John Rain, author Barry Eisler is an accomplished martial artist; likewise, Rain's workout routine (described in depth in the books) is based on Eisler's own. After working for a short time at the CIA Directorate Of Operations, Eisler became a lawyer and lived in Japan for several years. Hence the lovingly described Tokyo settings and Japanese cultural practices.
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John Rain / int_6a582e34	type	Day of the Jackboot
John Rain / int_6a582e34	comment	Colonel Horton's role is ambiguous — is he trying to stop a Day of the Jackboot like he claims, or is he one of the conspirators looking to advance his own interests?
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John Rain / int_6dc99d2a	type	Deadly Delivery
John Rain / int_6dc99d2a	comment	Rain does a Deadly Delivery as a Korean restaurant worker, only to find the receptionist can speak some of the language because her boyfriend is Korean. He just exaggerates his accent again — after all, you don't have to be Korean to work for a Korean restaurant.
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John Rain / int_6eeaa3c4	type	Bus Full of Innocents
John Rain / int_6eeaa3c4	comment	Bus Full of Innocents: In The Detachment a terrorist massacre at a school is planned to rouse public anger for a Day of the Jackboot conspiracy.
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John Rain / int_7276d0de	type	Mugging the Monster
John Rain / int_7276d0de	comment	Mugging the Monster: Happens on occasion, with random thugs often finding out (in the last few seconds of their life) that Rain was not just another middle-aged salaryman. Also done in the Ben Treven novel "Inside Out", with a Florida P.I. being hired to track Larison. It takes a handful of corpses for the P.I. to realize he's outclassed and cut all ties.
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John Rain / int_72e0023f	type	Invoked Trope
John Rain / int_72e0023f	comment	An Invoked Trope when the team plant a hidden camera in the room of a target and accidently catch him having sex with an escort girl. Dox then rings the target up and pretends to using the girl for a badger game, so he can lure the target out of his room; ostensibly to pay the blackmail money but actually to be killed.
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John Rain / int_7360a6b6	type	Noble Demon
John Rain / int_7360a6b6	comment	Noble Demon: Rain is a ruthless assassin that has killed innocents in the past, but he does have a moral code and generally works to minimize collateral damage where he can. Especially in later books.
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John Rain / int_738d1a0f	type	Because You Were Nice to Me
John Rain / int_738d1a0f	comment	Because You Were Nice to Me: Part of the reason Dox turns down a contract to kill Rain is because the latter treated him with respect at a time when he was still unproven among the other mercenaries in Afghanistan.
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John Rain / int_74b85afd	type	If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten!
John Rain / int_74b85afd	comment	If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten!: Hilger assassinates a US official to prove his bona fides as a Rogue Agent to a terrorist group. Turns out he believes The End Justifies The Means, and is actually trying to infiltrate the group.
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John Rain / int_75538142	type	Friend to All Children
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John Rain / int_7969f21e	type	No One Gets Left Behind
John Rain / int_7969f21e	comment	Dox throws away a bag containing five million dollars to carry Rain to safety. Rain himself wouldn't do that, so he's willing to go to great lengths to protect Dox in payment.
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John Rain / int_7bc8c453	type	Origins Episode
John Rain / int_7bc8c453	comment	Origins Episode: "Graveyard Of Memories". Set in the 1970's, it centers around a young John Rain who takes part in the Real Life Lockheed bribery scandal, finds then loses his first love and becomes a fugitive from the CIA.
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John Rain / int_82384b1	type	Never Hurt an Innocent
John Rain / int_82384b1	comment	Never Hurt an Innocent: Averted; Rain has killed people who aren't his principle targets or even soldiers working for them. In Extremis he has Dox snipe the valets outside a nightclub just because he can't afford to take the chance of them alerting someone inside, and he was rushing to protect Delilah at the time. Even the principle targets have sometimes done nothing wrong — Midori's father was working to expose corruption, for instance. In The Killer Ascendant, Rain has no trouble carrying out a contract on an innocent man that Hilger wants dead, if it saves Dox's life.
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John Rain / int_82518cf7	type	Motor Mouth
John Rain / int_82518cf7	comment	Motor Mouth: Once Dox starts talking, it's very difficult to get him to stop, much to Rain's chagrin.
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John Rain / int_83f0971b	type	Mexican Standoff
John Rain / int_83f0971b	comment	Mexican Standoff: After realising they've been betrayed in The Detachment, a minute twitch by Trevan leads to everyone pointing guns at each other. Fortunately Dox is there to defuse the situation by putting his gun to his own head and quoting from Blazing Saddles.
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John Rain / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
John Rain / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Midori, in a big way for Rain.
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John Rain / int_86bb7d97	type	Cultured Badass
John Rain / int_86bb7d97	comment	Cultured Badass: In addition to being a deadly assassin, Rain is also a connoisseur of Jazz music and single malt whiskey.
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John Rain / int_8879db82	type	Badass Crew
John Rain / int_8879db82	comment	Badass Crew: In The Detachment, you have John Rain, Dox, Ben Treven and Daniel Larison. Seriously, you would be scared shitless if even one of them came after you. When all four come after you, oh boy. Also applies to the main Power Trio of Dox, Delilah, and Rain as well. Each of them are highly skilled operatives, and are almost unstoppable when working together.
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John Rain / int_8984e5d1	type	Commonality Connection
John Rain / int_8984e5d1	comment	In Redemption Games, Rain hesitates to kill a target on seeing he has a son the same age as himself when he lost his own father. He eventually kills the man, but gives all the money from that contract to their family, pretending the target left it for them in his will.
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John Rain / int_8cb259f4	type	Overshadowed by Awesome
John Rain / int_8cb259f4	comment	Overshadowed by Awesome: Treven in The Detachment. While he's a top-notch gunfighter (with Larison's inner monologue mentioning that Treven had the best combat shooting skills of the crew), he felt out of place in the spycraft aspects of their mission, especially compared to Rain.
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John Rain / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
John Rain / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Part of Rain's standard operating procedure. After learning what he needs from the target of the day, he'll kill them to avoid any potential backlash.
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John Rain / int_967edd3a	type	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
John Rain / int_967edd3a	comment	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: A literary version. While there are some nasty fight scenes which often leave Rain's opponent dead, or severely handicapped for life, there are scenes where Rain is just walking through the night streets of Tokyo (or wherever he might be) and reminiscing about his childhood days, the friends he has lost, the psychological trauma of violence, etc.
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John Rain / int_96b89043	type	Not So Above It All
John Rain / int_96b89043	comment	In Redemption Games, Rain gleefully mocks Dox when he almost takes a Thai ladyboy back to his hotel. Rain realises almost too late that [s]he was separating them for a kidnapping team, the idea being that if the notoriously paranoid Rain suspected something was off-key, he'd just assume his Gut Feeling was reacting to her actually being a man.
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John Rain / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
John Rain / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: Justified by having Rain being Properly Paranoid, so he keeps explaining things to his co-workers (much to their annoyance) to ensure that they are all thinking on the same page or understand the need for his security precautions.
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John Rain / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
John Rain / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: Rain demands to know what the difference is between Hilger and Kanezaki. Kanezaki replies, "The ends" which are the exact words Hilger used earlier to justify his actions.
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John Rain / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
John Rain / int_9b54d536	comment	In Hard Rain, Rain is asked to kill an Evil Counterpart hitman. He decides it's too risky and refuses the assignment, until the hitman kills Harry. Rain even breaks his "no women" rule to kill a Honey Trap who assisted in the murder.
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John Rain / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
John Rain / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Rain notes that Kanezaki, initially an inexperienced CIA agent, rapidly improves in confidence and bargaining ability as time goes on.
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John Rain / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
John Rain / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: In Hard Rain, Rain is asked to kill an Evil Counterpart hitman. He decides it's too risky and refuses the assignment, until the hitman kills Harry. Rain even breaks his "no women" rule to kill a Honey Trap who assisted in the murder. After the events of Redemption Games Hilger is eager for revenge on Rain and Dox in Requiem for an Assassin, but later regrets this and feels he should have tried to recruit them instead. Unfortunately having kidnapped Dox and tortured him for Rain's contact number, Hilger knows it's too late for that to work.
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John Rain / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
John Rain / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Rain notes that Dox tends to play up his "good ol' boy" image, hiding how perceptive and deadly he really is.
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John Rain / int_a94eaaa4	type	Odd Friendship
John Rain / int_a94eaaa4	comment	Odd Friendship: Rain and Dox.
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John Rain / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
John Rain / int_ad1db87c	comment	In The Detachment, you have John Rain, Dox, Ben Treven and Daniel Larison. Seriously, you would be scared shitless if even one of them came after you. When all four come after you, oh boy.
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John Rain / int_b117e1fb	type	You Owe Me
John Rain / int_b117e1fb	comment	You Owe Me: There's a lot of bargaining of favours whenever Rain interacts with Friend on the Force characters. Dox throws away a bag containing five million dollars to carry Rain to safety. Rain himself wouldn't do that, so he's willing to go to great lengths to protect Dox in payment.
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John Rain / int_b6064061	type	Power of Trust
John Rain / int_b6064061	comment	Power of Trust: Invoked by Rain when he suspects (accurately) that Larison is planning to kill them and keep all the diamonds for himself. Knowing they aren't so different and aware of how his own viewpoint changed due to Dox's actions, he hands Larison a silenced Glock and gives him the option of either leaving with his share of the diamonds, or accompanying them to stop a terrorist atrocity. Larison (who was expecting to get shot on the spot) is too stunned to say much, but does end up going with them, despite having refused earlier.
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John Rain / int_bbb6c059	type	I Shall Taunt You
John Rain / int_bbb6c059	comment	I Shall Taunt You: When Dox is held prisoner in The Killer Ascendant, he keeps his morale up by taunting the one member of the professional team of mercenaries holding him who is easier to provoke, but Dox also does it in the hope of creating an opportunity to escape, knowing that the man would have to get him alone to get payback. It very nearly backfires when his escape attempt fails and the man decides to castrate Dox on the spot, only for John Rain to pull a Big Damn Heroes.
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John Rain / int_bbf11c0	type	Genius Bruiser
John Rain / int_bbf11c0	comment	Genius Bruiser: Rain. Unlike most fictional assassins who normally resort to shooting their targets, he prefers to strategically sabotage the environment around his victims in order to leave no trace of human involvement. He's also a near unstoppable martial artist, and a connoisseur of Tokyo's Jazz scene.
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John Rain / int_bd0d6395	type	No Social Skills
John Rain / int_bd0d6395	comment	Rain realises something is seriously wrong when Harry hitches up with a beautiful hostess at an expensive nightclub. Harry refuses to listen to Rain's warning, and is murdered when she lures him up onto a roof where his death by suicide can be faked.
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John Rain / int_bd620d3c	type	In Love with the Mark
John Rain / int_bd620d3c	comment	In Love with the Mark: Rain falls in love with Midori, the daughter of a man he's killed. Deconstructed in that after she learns that he killed her father, she hates him for a long time, and eventually betrays him.
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John Rain / int_bdbc35e7	type	Blade Enthusiast
John Rain / int_bdbc35e7	comment	Blade Enthusiast: Both Dox and Rain in later books, with Eisler providing loving descriptions of the high-quality blades they use. When possible, Rain favors a Benchmade folder, while Dox is particularly fond of a Fred Perrin Le Griffe he picked up a few books in. Rain's interest in knives is largely pragmatic; as a frequent international traveler, knives are easy to obtain when he gets to a new location, easy to conceal, and just as deadly as a firearm in close quarters while being much more quiet and discreet. Also, he's had a couple close calls with knife-wielding opponents when he was unarmed and would much rather have an even playing field.
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John Rain / int_be85ff22	type	Contract on the Hitman
John Rain / int_be85ff22	comment	Contract on the Hitman: In Redemption Games Rain and Dox find themselves on Mossad's hit list after they bungle an assignment, apparently killing two CIA agents in the process. In The Killer Ascendant, Hilger kidnaps Dox and uses him as leverage to force Rain to kill three people. Rain quickly works out that the last target is nonexistent. Rain himself is the intended victim, as Hilger has no intention of having Rain come after him once the job is done. In The Detachment, our anti-heroes find themselves on the Presidential hit list, blamed for a series of terrorist acts they were actually trying to stop.
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John Rain / int_c2fc1ae	type	Neck Snap
John Rain / int_c2fc1ae	comment	Neck Snap: Thanks to Rain's martial arts expertise, he uses this a lot for a Coup de Grâce.
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John Rain / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
John Rain / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: While Rain is solitary in the first few books, the series has him develop a network of friends and associates who he can count on to have his back, and vice-versa.
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John Rain / int_c6aa9afc	type	First-Person Perspective
John Rain / int_c6aa9afc	comment	First-Person Perspective: The books are mainly told from Rain's POV, but later novels have chapters from the third person viewpoint of other characters.
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John Rain / int_ca85e684	type	Power Trio
John Rain / int_ca85e684	comment	Also applies to the main Power Trio of Dox, Delilah, and Rain as well. Each of them are highly skilled operatives, and are almost unstoppable when working together.
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John Rain / int_d1cedb73	type	Slap-Slap-Kiss
John Rain / int_d1cedb73	comment	Slap-Slap-Kiss: Rain's sexual encounters tend to be either this or Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex.
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John Rain / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
John Rain / int_d39e327f	comment	Rain discovers Delilah sabotaged his relationship with Midori, but decides to forgive her after a What the Hell, Hero? speech from Dox, and the realisation that Delilah genuinely regrets her actions.
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John Rain / int_d48c0702	type	That's What I Would Do
John Rain / int_d48c0702	comment	That's What I Would Do: Rain whenever The Hunter Becomes the Hunted.
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John Rain / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
John Rain / int_d5c7b415	comment	Elites Are More Glamorous: Most major characters come from some form of special operations background. Rain was a CIA MAC-V SOG operative, Dox was a Recon Marine, Delilah was Mossad, Treven was an Army Ranger, and Larison was a Delta Force Commando. Even villains such as Jim Hilger as former special forces. The only character this doesn't apply to is Livia Lone, who is ostensibly just a cop (though is far more capable than one would expect.)
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John Rain / int_d8d0a461	type	Fight Clubbing
John Rain / int_d8d0a461	comment	Fight Clubbing: In Hard Rain, a Yakuza boss runs the occasional Deadly Game using members of a dojo he's running, but Rain points out that he'd barely break even on the gambling money, when set against the large prize money awarded to the winners. Tatsu suggests that the actual goal is either to desensitize the fighters to killing so they can be recruited as assassins, or so the boss has a pool of muscle he can draw upon if Japan falls into political turmoil.
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John Rain / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
John Rain / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Delilah. Thanks to her Mossad training, she's a skilled gunfighter and very competent in a fistfight. She might not be able to go toe-to-toe with Rain or Dox, but any run-of-the-mill mooks in her way are easily dealt with in short order. In later books, Livia Lone is another shining example. Despite just being a Seattle cop, she easily keeps pace with a crew of world-class assassins in both combat shooting and hand-to-hand combat. She's one of the very few grapplers in the series on par with Rain himself.
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John Rain / int_db1ab4b1	type	Just a Stupid Accent
John Rain / int_db1ab4b1	comment	Just a Stupid Accent: Rain exaggerates his Japanese accent when working in the United States, knowing people will pigeonhole him as a harmless Japanese businessman. Rain does a Deadly Delivery as a Korean restaurant worker, only to find the receptionist can speak some of the language because her boyfriend is Korean. He just exaggerates his accent again — after all, you don't have to be Korean to work for a Korean restaurant.
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John Rain / int_dc2912f	type	Armoured Closet Gay
John Rain / int_dc2912f	comment	Armoured Closet Gay: Larson is prepared to kill the other members of his team rather than have them find out he's homosexual, even though none of them particularly care.
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John Rain / int_dcdde3b	type	Inherent in the System
John Rain / int_dcdde3b	comment	Inherent in the System: Tatsu, Hilger and Horton find themselves up against this.
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John Rain / int_ddda61ad	type	Loner-Turned-Friend
John Rain / int_ddda61ad	comment	Loner-Turned-Friend: Rain with Dox, and earlier Harry with Rain.
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John Rain / int_e0723cbb	type	You Talk Too Much!
John Rain / int_e0723cbb	comment	You Talk Too Much!: The Stoic Rain is constantly exasperated by Dox's amiable discourse. At one point he even ends up Removing the Earpiece so he won't have to listen.
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John Rain / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
John Rain / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: Midori. Which backfires on Rain — he fails to anticipate that Midori will betray him to protect their son.
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John Rain / int_e27693	type	The Coup
John Rain / int_e27693	comment	In The Detachment, Horton hires Rain, Dox, Treven and Larison to forestall The Coup which he claims is being plotted by senior American officials. As with Hilger, the third 'target' is a set-up, Horton is manipulating everyone and intends to Leave No Witnesses.
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John Rain / int_e3c20140	type	As Long as It Sounds Foreign
John Rain / int_e3c20140	comment	As Long as It Sounds Foreign: In-Universe when Rain tries to mislead a couple of Yakuza thugs as to his identity by speaking Chinese. Unfortunately the only Chinese he knows is Wau ai ni which translates to I love you.
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John Rain / int_e54f93d5	type	Never Bring a Knife to a Fist Fight
John Rain / int_e54f93d5	comment	Never Bring a Knife to a Fist Fight: Rain prefers to rely on his martial arts skill (knives are messy, after all) but a couple of near misses against knife-wielding opponents, and the realization that his skills are fading with age, causes Rain to start carrying a knife regularly.
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John Rain / int_f005bd1c	type	Friend on the Force
John Rain / int_f005bd1c	comment	There's a lot of bargaining of favours whenever Rain interacts with Friend on the Force characters.
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John Rain / int_f16da697	type	Undying Loyalty
John Rain / int_f16da697	comment	Undying Loyalty: Despite being a sociopathic killer, Larison believes in this. After being bailed out by Rain, he makes it clear that he will kill anyone Rain askes him to.
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John Rain / int_f36c4f98	type	Easily Forgiven
John Rain / int_f36c4f98	comment	Easily Forgiven: Rain has killed people working for the CIA and Tatsu. That doesn't stop either party from wanting to employ his services, because his skills are in short supply. Rain discovers Delilah sabotaged his relationship with Midori, but decides to forgive her after a What the Hell, Hero? speech from Dox, and the realisation that Delilah genuinely regrets her actions.
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John Rain / int_f5c505db	type	The Cracker
John Rain / int_f5c505db	comment	The Cracker: Rain's departed friend, Harry.
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John Rain / int_fb8b5014	type	Talking to Themself
John Rain / int_fb8b5014	comment	Talking to Themself: In The Killer Ascendant, while smoking dope in a coffee bar in Rotterdam, Rain has a conversation with 'The Iceman', the cold-blooded killer part of his personality, who derides his belief that he can retire from his life as a Professional Killer.
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John Rain / int_fb8b5014	featureConfidence	1.0
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John Rain / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
John Rain / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Dox is constantly the friendliest and most chipper person around, while also being an extremely skilled sniper and formidable hand-to-hand combatant.
John Rain / int_fccd06b6	featureApplicability	1.0
John Rain / int_fccd06b6	featureConfidence	1.0
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John Rain / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
John Rain / int_fd4f8299	comment	Jim Hilger is a CIA agent running the deniable kind of rogue operation, who's eventually revealed to be a Well-Intentioned Extremist and genuine rogue agent.
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John Rain	hasFeature	A Match Made in Stockholm / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Agony Beam / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	American Literature (J To M) / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Assassins Are Always Betrayed / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Big Blackout / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Bilingual Backfire / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Blinded by the Light / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Bodyguard Betrayal / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Camping a Crapper / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Can't Stop The Signal / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Cold Sniper / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Contract on the Hitman / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Decapitated Army / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Double Tap / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Epunymous Title / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Eye Contact as Proof / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Face, Nod, Action / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Fall Guy / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Femme Fatale Spy / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Forced Prize Fight / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Freudian Threat / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	From Camouflage to Criminal / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Grave-Marking Scene / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Honey Trap / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	I Call Him "Mister Happy" / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	I Shall Taunt You / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	I Work Alone / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Infraction Distraction / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Instant Sedation / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Is That a Threat? / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Just Following Orders / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Kill Me Now, or Forever Stay Your Hand / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Last Request / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Lima Syndrome / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Make It Look Like an Accident / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Mexican Standoff / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Never Bring a Knife to a Fist Fight / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Newspaper-Thin Disguise / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	No Dead Body Poops / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Or Are You Just Happy to See Me? / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Phallic Weapon / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Power of Trust / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Prove I Am Not Bluffing / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Rogue Agent / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Sleeping Dummy / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Slowly Slipping Into Evil / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Sword over Head / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Talking to Themself / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Tastes Like Friendship / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	The Anticipator / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Thug Dojo / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Water Torture / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	Yellowface / int_1054984c
John Rain	hasFeature	That's Gotta Hurt / int_1054984c

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