Category: Barry Eisler

Genre: Thriller “Livia Lone” is an ARC sent to me by Barry Eisler.  It is due in “stores” on October 25, 2016. THEN 13 year old Labee (Livia) and her 11 year old sister Nason are members of the Lahu tribe in northern Thailand. Times are tough, but, they are happy and hard-working. One day…

Genre: Thriller John Rain, assassin, is getting soft dreaming about the possibly of a normal life. He may die because of it… Buy It! John Rain is a Japanese American assassin. His specialty is killing people so it looks like a natural death or accident. His services are for hire. In “Redemption Games”, the fourth…

(Information is Power) Genre: Thriller – Buy it! – “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely” Lord Acton In this day & age: Information is Power. Evie Gallagher works at the NSA. She is a devoted single mother to a deaf child and a computer science graduate. At her NSA job, Evie developed…

Genre: Thriller (a Rain / Delilah Short Story) Rating: 3.5 WaterTowers (Read it!  Great story) This is Eisler’s second short story in the past few months.  Both are self-published in electronic format only, but, the first “The Lost Coast” is pure new age scary as hell 4 WaterTower thriller (a love story….oh sorry, Mr. Eisler,…

Genre: Thriller Rating: 4 Watertowers This is only available in electronic form.  You can get it at several online locations including Amazon and Barnes & Noble.  This is Barry’s first “self-published book”. “The Lost Coast” refers to a geographically challenged section of Northern California coast where US 1 pushes away from the water and heads…

Genre: Thriller Rating: 4 WaterTowers (power and politics from the inside…out) This is an ARC sent to me, and signed, by Barry Eisler.  It is due in stores June 29, 2010. “Inside Out” is an absolutely terrific read, and an absolute nightmare (equally as hard as  Gayle Lynd’s “The Last Spymaster”) to review. What you…

OK.  I caught Barry Eisler’s link to his blog entry titled “Paper Earthworks and Digital Tides” where he gives an outstanding synopsis and opinion on the recent Macmillan / Amazon, ah….disagreement, and what the future may hold re:  e-book versus paper publishing. Here is the link to Barry’s blog, but, I also copied the full…

Rating:  4 WaterTowers “Fault Line” is due in stores in March 2009.  I recieved this ARC from Barry Eisler and I thank him for sending it.  🙂 Richard Hilzoy was at the top of the world.   He was about to meet with his lawyer, Alex Treven, and several VC’s (Venture Capitalists) to discuss how…