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
McCain the Manchurian Candidate
John McCain was at
it again today, suggesting that Americans shouldn't vote for Obama
because a Hamas spokesman spoke well of McCain's opponent. As a McC...
Journalists and Bullshit
In a New York Times column
Wednesday, David
Brooks nicely (albeit unintentionally) summed up much of what's wrong
with the mainstream media. In the course of a...
Great
American Hypocrites
I just finished reading my advance copy
of Glenn Greenwald's outstanding book, Great
American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics.
It...
Duplicity, Delusion, and Cognitive Dissonance
Checking out the news this evening from Amsterdam, I couldn't help but chuckle at Bill Clinton's latest explanation of Hillary's path to victory:Right
n...
Increased Iraq Violence = Success
No, you didn't read the title wrong -- Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell really did say that the new fighting in Basra, in which US-backed government forces are...
Hillary
Has Worshipers, Too
Recently I received an email from a
friend and Hillary Clinton supporter. This post is based on my response.
Dear [],
Thanks for forwarding t...
Tough Smart, Tough Stupid
Glenn Greenwald, who along with
George Carlin would get my vote for Living
National Treasure if America offered such a designation, has a
terrific post today o...
Unintentional, Self-Created, Blissfully Unaware Irony PrizeMitt Romney's concession
speech was remarkable for many reasons, not the least of
which is that Romney attacked Democrats for wanting to "d...
I've been blessed with a
variety of interesting jobs: a covert position with the CIA's Directorate of
Operations; attorney in an international law firm; in-house counsel at the
Osaka headquarte...
