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
Brain Dead"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." - Mark TwainIf you're part of the McCain team, here's what you're thinkin...
Obama Eats Special Needs Children!
James Taranto has an article in today's Wall Street Journal in which he professes outrage at anyone who would suggest John McCain picked Sarah Palin b...
Suicide By Palin
On November 5, when the votes are in and Obama has won, pundits will look back and see what all the bizarreness and hysteria are occluding now: John McCain lost the election when h...
Rebranding McCainApologies to all for being away so long. If you haven't heard, back in May, my family and I made a sudden decision to move to Tokyo for the year, which led to a distracting three mo...
Safety First; The Constitution SecondIf
you're a regular reader of HOTM, you know where I stand on the recently
enacted FISA Amendments Act of 2008, which grants the government broad
new domestic e...
This is Conviction?
Today's Wall Street Journal features
an op-ed by AEI resident scholar Michael Ledeen called Iran
and the Problem of Evil. The op-ed contains one severe logical
fallacy ...
Hillary's Exit
With some reluctance, I offer a few
thoughts on Hillary's defeat, particularly on the notion that she deserves to
be, and that Obama should make her, the Democratic vice p...
Those Crazy Conservative Activists
Again
Yesterday's California
Supreme Court ruling, relying on the California state constitution to
find unconstitutional the exclusion of gays from th...
Confused, Spineless Democrats
I read an op-ed in yesterday's Wall
Street Journal called "Obama
and the Values Question Mark" by a guy named Douglas E.
Schoen. It's an advice piece, and...
Hamas Manipulates Republicans;
Republicans Manipulate You
On Friday, I called John
McCain the Manchurian Candidate because he and other Republicans are
trying to tie Obama to Hamas even...
