DELILAH
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Full Name: |
Delilah |
Nationality: |
Israeli |
Organization: |
Mossad |
Occupation |
Agent |
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Creator: |
Barry Eisler
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Time Span: |
2004 - 2019 |
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ABOUT THE SERIES
Delilah is an agent with Mossad.
More specifically she is their top seductress, an incredibly beautiful young woman who possessed not only great beauty and charm but also the inate skill to mold herself into whatever type of woman the intended target was seeking. She could be dominating or fiercely independent. She could be timid or meek. She could be alluring or demure or, and this seemed a specialty of her, both at the same time.
While Delilah, and if a last name was ever given is able to travel anywhere in the world and somehow still make it seem she was on her home turf, her true nesting place was in Paris. There she was not only in her element, she was at home. She had a pleasant apartment in the Le Marais district of the city, not too far from the Seine and the Cathedral of Notre Dame, and that served as her base of operations.
She lived and worked out of Paris because while over the years of highly successful work she had helped take down "numerous terrorist financiers and other enablers", she had also "caused a fair amount of trouble". Her intense self-reliance inevitably gave way to chafing at any sort of micro-managing. "For a while, there had been intemperance and acrimony, even some threats. But all that seemed over with now, replaced by a kind of cold peace."
When not on an assignment for Mossad, she maintains a real legend as a local fashion photographer. It was actually "self-sustaining with real clients and real referrals" and it afforded her the largely simple lifestyle she wanted. Her only real indulgence was staying at the best hotels when she traveled. Otherwise, for her less was more.
We first get to know of Delilah from the adventures of the extremely deadly freelance assassin , a man who also did a lot of work now and then for the CIA. They were both on a job going against an arms dealer in Southeast Asia. Their ad-hoc partnership would morph over a short time into intense attraction and then love and then animosity because she was too independent to be willing to give up her work as a seductress just because she had fallen in love. They would come together, argue, separate for months at a time, and then find their way back to each other.
Delilah is one of the best agents that Mossad, and John Rain, had ever known.
BOOKS
Number of Books: | 6 |
First Appearance: | 2004 |
Last Appearance: | 2019 |
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Winner Take All
aka Choke Point and Rain Storm
Written by Barry Eisler
Copyright: 2004
Book 3 in the series. Having abandoned Japan for Brazil to be free from the demands from too many sides, John Rain “reluctantly” agrees to take an assignment in Macao. Between the actions of a rival assassin and a beautiful woman who is far more than she seems, Rain finds himself caught in one heckuva storm. That gorgeous woman is Delilah.
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Killing Rain
aka One Last Kill and Redemption Games
Written by Barry Eisler
Copyright: 2005
Book 4 in the series. Finished with the Japanese FBI, the Yakuza, and the CIA, John Rain is hopeful he is free of the killing business. Until, that is, he is approached by the Mossad to do one simple job for them in Manila. Nothing is ever simple, however, but luckily having Rain's back is Delilah
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The Last Assassin
aka Extremis
Written by Barry Eisler
Copyright: 2006
Book 5 in the series. Learning that his former love, Midori, is living in New York with his son, John Rain feels compelled to see them, if only from a distance. But they are being watched in the hopes that Rain will do just that. Also watching him, though at Rain's request, is his friend and sometimes associate, Dox, as well as the gorgeous and deadly Delilah.
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Requiem For An Assassin
aka The Killer Ascendant
Written by Barry Eisler
Copyright: 2007
Book 6 in the series. An old enemy kidnaps John Rain's best friend as leverage to force a mission which is almost certainly a suicidal one. Helping him get Dox back is the talented Delilah.
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The Detachment
Written by Barry Eisler
Copyright: 2010
Book 7 in the series. Though he wanted to retire, the offer from an old enemy was too good, several millions of dollars to take out three targets planning to attack America. To pull it off, Rain must call upon old friends to help.
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The Killer Collective
Written by Barry Eisler
Copyright: 2019
Book 10 in the series and Book 3 in the series. Seattle sex-crimes detective Livia Lone is the target of a hit, one that had been offered to John Rain. Worried that the FBI might be behind it, she appeals to Dox to help her out and he, in turn, looks to Rain and to Ben Treven and Daniel Larison to assist. Rain in turns looks to his sometimes lover, Delilah.
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NOVELLAS AND SHORT STORIES
Number of Stories: | 2 |
First Appearance: | 2011 |
Last Appearance: | 2013 |
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Paris Is A Bitch
a Rain/Delilah short story
Written by Barry Eisler
Copyright: 2011
In Paris for a date with Delilah, John Rain is there when a hit squad arrives at the restaurant to pay Delilah back for her latest mission to the Middle East. It does not go well for the assailants but dinner is ruined.
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London Twist
novella
Written by Barry Eisler
Copyright: 2013
The Mossad owes MI6 a favor. They call it in asking for Delilah to infiltrate a London based terror group planning poison gas attacks. The person she is supposed to charm to get inside is a woman who is just as cagey as Delilah. [Rain is mentioned several times.]
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