Media Tectonics Career Conversations with Barry Eisler

Barry Eisler is a novelist, former CIA operative, and recovering lawyer. Here he speaks with Doug Jackson and Cindy Mullins of Media Tectonics, high above the Tokyo skyline in the 49th floor executive suite of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. His sharp-edged, realistic novels about an enigmatic and conflicted assassin named John Rain have won the Barry Award and the Gumshoe Award for Best Thriller of the Year and appear in nearly twenty languages. In 2009 Sony Pictures turned Barry’s first book, Rain Fall, into a movie starring Gary Oldman. His seventh and newest novel, Fault Line, launches a new subgenre—the blogosphere thriller. Barry earned a black belt at the Kodokan International Judo Center in Tokyo, and lives alternately in Japan and the Bay Area.
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