NPR’s Morning edition had self-publishing advocate turned Amazon publishing advocate Barry Eisler on for an interview today. He talked about his decision to walk away from a six-figure book deal with ...

Rain Fall (2002), Eisler's first book about Japanese-American Vietnam vet John Rain, a hired assassin for government agencies in Tokyo and Washington, worked so well that the author wisely decided to ...

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Japanese-American assassin John Rain is growing tired of the killing game and wants to find a way out. When he tries to reconnect with Midori, the mother of the child he's just learned he had, he runs ...

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Thriller writer Barry Eisler was in town last night with some great stories about his John Rain series. Rain is a likable assassin. Remember, this is fiction. Eisler was at the Once Upon a Crime book ...

Eisler’s rock-solid sequel to Fault Line finds black ops spy/assassin Ben Treven dealing with anger management problems that have landed him in a grim Filipino jail. To the rescue is his old boss, Col ...

In our series Thrilled to Death, suspense writers talk with us about their work, and then recommend the books they love. Barry Eisler, a former CIA operative, is the author of two thriller series that ...

For a former CIA operative, Barry Eisler is remarkably open. The best-selling thriller writer, a Menlo Park resident, rides his bicycle to an interview at Kepler's Books, doesn't wear sunglasses or a ...

A former covert CIA operative turned novelist is fast emerging as one of the most important fiction writers in the military/covert ops/political thriller genre dominated by right-wing authors. By ...

George Orwell's dystopian vision offers such devastating political commentary that it's rarely described as a suspense novel. But author and... Barry Eisler: A Grim Future Is Now In '1984' In our ...