Barry Eisler: Requiem for an Assassin

The line Rain recollects in Chapter 6, “Hell, I’ll kill a man in a fair fight…or if I think he’s gonna start a fair fight,” is from Joss Whedon’s terrific movie Serenity.

Eve Bridberg, Vivian Brown, Alan Eisler, Judith Eisler, Jack “Spook” Finch (no pregnant yak he), Tom Hayes, Rachel Holtzman, Mike Killman, Yukie Kito, novelist J. A. Konrath, Dan Levin, Doug Patteson, Matt Powers, Sandy Rennert, Ted Schlein, Hank Shiffman, The Man Called Slugg, Pete Wenzel, and Caryn Wiseman, for helpful comments on the manuscript and many valuable suggestions and insights along the way.

I feel like I’m forgetting to mention someone…

Kidding. My wife, Laura, helps with, suffers through, and then enjoys these books like no one else. Thanks for everything, babe.

After graduating from Cornell Law School in 1989, Barry Eisler spent three years with the U.S. government..For a decade thereafter he practiced various aspects of international law, including a year with the Japanese law firm of Hamada and Matsumoto in Tokyo and two years as in-house counsel at the Osaka headquarters of Matsushita Electric and Industrial Co., Ltd.

Mr. Eisler earned his black belt in judo from the Kodokan International Judo Center in Tokyo.

Today he lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area and continues to travel to Japan frequently.

Rights to the Rain books have been sold in 12 countries, and film rights have been purchased by Jet Li.