Barry Eisler
After graduating from Cornell Law
School in 1989, Barry Eisler spent three years in the CIA's Directorate of
Operations, and then three years in Japan, where he earned his black belt at
the Kodokan International Judo Center. Eisler's books have won the Barry
Award and the Gumshoe Award for Best Thriller of the Year; have been included
in numerous "Best Of" lists; and have been translated into nearly
twenty languages. A film
version of the first book in Eisler's John Rain series, Rain Fall,
will be released by Sony Pictures Japan in March 2009 and stars Gary
Oldman as Rain's CIA nemesis William Holtzer. For more, please visit www.barryeisler.com.
Blogs by this Author
More Signs of the Creeping Militarization of US Society
Hi everyone, forgive my long hiatus. If anyone here is considering moving back from Tokyo, living in a house while it's being renovated, and ...
Double Standard for a Latina
I just read this article in today's New York Times: "Sotomayer Says Identify Won't Distort Her Positions."
"Judge Sonia Sotomayor insisted on Tuesday, in the face of s...
The Willful Stupidity of Anti-Gay Prejudice
This post began as a response to a series of comments on my FaceBook page, where I posted a video of Rachel Maddow interviewing Rep. Patrick Murphy, an 8...
The Torture Temptation
What I find most remarkable about America's debate regarding torture -- beyond the fact that such a debate could even be necessary in America -- is the continual recourse of ...
How to Give a Great Talk
This one's a little off topic, but enough people have asked so that I thought I'd post it here, too. If you want to know how to give a great talk, here are my thoughts foll...
The Torture Mentality, Part 4
It's impossible to keep up with the ever-creative arguments of torture apologists, but I'm trying. For the moment, let me step back from the cornucopia of metastasizin...
How it Looks to the TerroristsTranscript of an intercepted conversation between two terrorists in a cave somewhere along the Afghanistan/Pakistan border:
Did you hear Dick Cheney's speech to the Am...
Our Warden-in-Chief
Mostly I agree with Glenn Greenwald that only a politician's actions matter, and speculation about his or her motives is pointless. But when a politician reverses himself repeat...
Incoherent Truth Suppression
As op-eds go, this one in the NYT praising President Obama for reversing himself and deciding to block the publication of additional torture photos is particularly vapi...
The Torture Mentality, Part 3
Still trying to keep up with the messages I receive from torture apologists. Recently I received one from a gentleman named James R. Hostert on my Amazon blog. Mr. Hos...
