The Detachment by Barry Eisler

Eisler did a great job of creating complex and likable characters - the short coming is too much discussions of things that don't pan out in the plot. If this 10 hour book was reduced to 8 or 9 it would be better. Eisler really hit his stride with The Detachment, and gone from mildly interesting to very enjoyable. PW: When legendary black ops veteran Colonel Scott “Hort” Horton tracks Rain down in Tokyo, Rain can’t resist the offer: a multi-million dollar payday for the “natural causes” demise of three ultra-high-profile targets who are dangerously close to launching a coup in America. But the opposition on this job is going to be too much for even Rain to pull it off alone. He’ll need a detachment of other deniable irregulars: his partner, the former Marine sniper, Dox. Ben Treven, a covert operator with ambivalent motives and conflicted loyalties. And Larison, a man with a hair trigger and a secret he’ll kill to protect.