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Barry Eisler

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in New Jersey, The United States

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Mystery & Thrillers

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Barry Eisler spent three years in a covert position with the CIA's Directorate of Operations, then worked as a technology lawyer and startup executive in Silicon Valley and Japan, earning his black belt at the Kodokan International Judo Center along the way. Eisler's bestselling thrillers 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. Eisler lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and, when he's not writing novels, blogs about torture, civil liberties, and the rule of law.
--from the author's website

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Amazon Smile, No More

In 2018, at the suggestion of novelist Andrew Vachss, I did what I could do get out the word about Amazon Smile—a program that enabled Amazon customers to direct a portion of their purposes to a favored charity. Mine was an organization Andrew established: the Legislative Drafting Institute for Child Protection.

The good news is, you can still donate to the LDICP. The bad news, per the email copied

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Barry Eisler’s books

Average rating: 4.14 · 162,827 ratings · 9,220 reviews · 46 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Killer Collective (John Rain, #10; Ben Treven, #4; Livia Lone, #3) 4.01 avg rating — 24,970 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Clean Kill in Tokyo (John Rain, #1) 3.98 avg rating — 17,850 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Livia Lone (Livia Lone, #1) 4.19 avg rating — 11,256 ratings — published 2016 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Lonely Resurrection (John Rain, #2) 4.13 avg rating — 9,601 ratings — published 2003 — 57 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Winner Take All (John Rain, #3) 4.17 avg rating — 9,151 ratings — published 2004 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Chaos Kind (John Rain, #11, Livia Lone, #5) 4.32 avg rating — 8,681 ratings — published 2021 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Redemption Games (John Rain, #4) 4.26 avg rating — 8,740 ratings — published 2005 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Extremis (John Rain, #5) 4.29 avg rating — 8,408 ratings — published 2006 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Detachment (John Rain #7; Ben Treven #3) 4.16 avg rating — 8,272 ratings — published 2011 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Killer Ascendant (John Rain, #6) 4.28 avg rating — 7,937 ratings — published 2007 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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John Rain (11 books)
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Quotes by Barry Eisler (?)

“If you focus on the risks, they'll multiply in your mind and eventually paralyze you. You want to focus on the task, instead, on doing what needs to be done.”
― Barry Eisler

tags: inspirational-success-failure

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“I wandered the earth a mercenary, daring the gods to kill me but surviving because part of me was already dead.”
― Barry Eisler, A Clean Kill in Tokyo

tags: dare, loner

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“Most people are like sheep. Nice, harmless creatures who want nothing more than to be left alone so they can graze. But then of course there are wolves. Who want nothing more than to eat the sheep.

But there’s a third kind of person. The sheepdog. Sheepdogs have fangs like wolves. But their instinct isn’t predation. It’s protection. All they want, what they live for, is to protect the flock.”
― Barry Eisler, Livia Lone

tags: cops, philosophy, police, predation, protect, sheep, sheepdog, wolves

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May/June 2014 Group Read Poll.

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo/Stieg Larsson

39 votes 15.2%

The Hound of the Baskervilles/Arthur Conan Doyle

28 votes 10.9%

The Hypnotist/Lars Kepler

25 votes 9.8%

Hide and Seek/James Patterson

18 votes 7.0%

A Time to Kill/John Grisham

17 votes 6.6%

Fingersmith/Sarah Waters

14 votes 5.5%

The Boy in the Suitcase/Lene Kaaberbøl

12 votes 4.7%

A Lonely Resurrection/Barry Eisler

11 votes 4.3%

BoneMan's Daughters/Ted Dekker

10 votes 3.9%

Angels & Demons/Dan Brown

10 votes 3.9%

River of Darkness/Rennie Airth

10 votes 3.9%

One Breath Away/Heather Gudenkauf

9 votes 3.5%

Thursday's Children/Nicci French

8 votes 3.1%

Cold Granite Stuart MacBride

8 votes 3.1%

Rock'n'Roll Suicide/Geoffrey David West

7 votes 2.7%

The Butcher/Jennifer Hillier

7 votes 2.7%

Down River/John Hart

7 votes 2.7%

Deviant Way/Richard Montanari

6 votes 2.3%

The Eye Collector/Sebastian Fitzek

5 votes 2.0%

Malice Aforethought/Francis Iles

5 votes 2.0%

Retribution/Tammy Hinton

0 votes 0.0%

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