Barry Eisler

Fast Facts:

• Barry has always held a fascination for “forbidden knowledge.” After reading a biography of Harry Houdini as a child, he marveled at the possibility that one could acquire knowledge that could possibly make someone dangerous.
  
  
• Barry studies various forms of martial arts, including western boxing and wrestling, Japanese judo and karate and Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
  
  
• Barry worked for three years with the CIA. There, he was trained in small arms, long arms, hand-to-hand combat, improvised explosive devices, small water craft, air drops to friendly forces, surveillance, counter-surveillance, counter-terrorism, agent recruitment and management and interrogation and manipulation techniques.
  
  
• In 1993, Barry moved to Tokyo to train intensively at the Kodakan International Judo center, as well as to immerse himself in the language, country and culture. While living there, an image of two men following another man down Dogenzaka street in Shibuya came to him during his commute to work one morning. That image became the basis for his first novel, RAIN FALL.
  
  
• REQUIEM FOR AN ASSASSIN is the 6th book in Barry’s John Rain series, featuring a half-American, half-Japanese assassin. Previous titles in the series include RAIN FALL, HARD RAIN, RAIN STORM, KILLING RAIN and THE LAST ASSASSIN.
  
  
• Barry’s books were recently optioned for film by Barrie Osborne, the Oscar-winning producer of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
  
  
• Barry currently lives and works in the San Francisco Bay area, but still frequently travels to Asia.
  
  

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