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
Czar Kudzu
Recently I've noticed a trend where the government, apparently dissatisfied with normal channels, insists on coming up with some special means for accomplishing what the normal channels ...
The True Price of the "Dark Side"
In the course of researching my next novel, I just binged on three excellent documentaries: Standard Operating Procedure, which examines the events at Abu Ghraib t...
The Myth of EquivalenceThere's been a lot of lively conversation about the election on my website discussion board, some of which caused me to write the following post on the reflexive notion of pol...
Rightwing Surrender Monkeys
God, how much cognitive dissonance can the right bear? Last week, al Qaeda endorsed John McCain, and now... now... the Bush administration is waving a white flag of surr...
Al Qaeda Endorses McCain
Now that al Qaeda has endorsed John McCain, it'll be fascinating to hear McCain and his allies explain why America's #1 enemy has thrown its support to him. In case you don...
Thoughts on the Third Presidential Debate
Well, the snap polls are going heavily to Obama. This is not surprising. As I've argued before, the only definition of who "won" that matters is, who garne...
Amerika
Here are some videos of recent McCain/Palin rallies. Look at the kind of hatred and anger they're appealing to and fomenting. Look at the kind of know-nothing, us vs. them, violent pa...
Why Do the Palins Hate America?Imagine the reaction if Michelle Obama had belonged to a political party that advocated secession from America, a party whose founder ranted, "The fires of hell are froz...
The VP DebateOkay, just got done watching the vice presidential debate. A few thoughts.
As with last week's presidential debate, the main thing to remember in determining who won and who lost is th...
The Debate
Thanks for all the messages asking me what I thought of the debate. There's a ton of excellent coverage out there already, and I don't want to repeat the commentary you can find at The D...
