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
The Torture Mentality, Part 2
Last week, I posted a set of pro-torture talking points sent to me by a persistent torture apologist, along with my responses. The talking points were extensive, by no...
The Torture Mentality
As I pointed out recently, it's difficult to keep up with the denial, obfuscation, and sheer, tendentious illogic of torture apologists. Even now, despite Bush-era DOJ memos a...
Politicizing Criminality
Just got back to Tokyo after another week on the road for Fault Line promotion. No time to write while I was traveling, but I did have a chance to read a number of establis...
Privileging the Posterior
As Ian Fleming's Auric Goldfinger said, "Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action." So when I heard Rush Limbaugh's recent comments about Br...
Criticize Govt = Hate America?
Back in Tokyo after three weeks on the road promoting Fault Line, drained as usual after these things but happy. Not much of a break this time, either, with the Japan...
Detainees and Prisoners
Yesterday (the 14th) the Obama administration announced a new policy to govern the holding of terror suspects. Here's what Attorney General Eric Holder announced:
"As we wo...
Fault Line is Here!
Fault Line, my first standalone thriller, launches today, so I thought it would be appropriate to include some thoughts from a recent interview on the book’s origins and i...
Still Winnable, Give or Take Five Years
Today I read the always-insightful Andrew Bacevich's review of David Kilcullen's "The Accidental Guerilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One" (h/...
Secrecy and Lies
Since Wednesday, I've been following the story of how the United States has apparently threatened to stop sharing intelligence with Britain should a British court release details o...
Gaza, the Inauguration, Etc.
Thanks for all the mail, everyone, and I miss you too. As I mentioned in my first post-election post, I've been trying to blog less so I can focus more on the next nove...
