Barry Eisler

“But it seemed clever and careful was exactly what drew the attention of God’s Eye.”

— Barry Eisler

Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

— Barry Eisler

“And Harry’s bug and video detector was blessedly quiescent.”

— Barry Eisler

“Life can only be understood backward; but it must be lived forward. —Kierkegaard”

— Barry Eisler

“Sometimes, you have to remind yourself the perfect is the enemy of the good.”

— Barry Eisler

The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.

— Barry Eisler

I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.

— Barry Eisler

Good argument is intended to persuade another.

— Barry Eisler

“What was that Churchill saying? “Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.” That’s what this felt…

— Barry Eisler

The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.

— Barry Eisler

If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.

— Barry Eisler

The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for…

— 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,…

— Barry Eisler

“My American and Japanese personalities are distinct, and I carry myself differently depending on which language I’m using and which mode I’m…

— Barry Eisler

“I smiled into her green eyes. The smile felt strangely sad to me. Maybe she didn’t notice.”

— Barry Eisler

“Tatsu had pursued me for years, but more recently we had managed to achieve an improbable entente.”

— Barry Eisler

I make a good living selling hardback books through paper publishers, and I have many friends in the industry who will suffer…

— Barry Eisler

“Karate moved slowly through the lobby. His gaze went to Belghazi and his eyes hardened in a way that would mean nothing…

— Barry Eisler

“He laughed at that, which was good. I needed him to understand who was in charge, but didn’t want to beat him…

— Barry Eisler

“I was impressed. I had been taking care not to stand out or to otherwise become memorable, and he had spotted me…

— Barry Eisler

“When I was ready, I eased in beside him. Immediately I felt my muscles trying to shrink back from the heat, and…

— Barry Eisler

“He glanced to his left, which for most people is a neurolinguistic sign of recall rather than of construction. Had he looked…

— Barry Eisler

“I heard laughter and looked up. Some kids at the terminal next to me, playing an online game. I wondered for a…

— Barry Eisler

“He stumbled and managed to get out a suppressed pistol, trying at the same time to regain his balance. But his motor…

— Barry Eisler

“Why? If I’d run into her in the street, the first thing she would have said would have been, “What are you…

— Barry Eisler

“Seriously protecting yourself calls for the annihilation of ties with society, ties that most people need the way they need oxygen. You…

— Barry Eisler

“The feeling was a bit odd under the circumstances, but I was glad to be back at the Old Imperial. Windowless and…

— Barry Eisler

“She nodded. “At first what I thought I wanted was revenge. I kept thinking of how to hurt you, how to cause…

— Barry Eisler

“Maybe democracies, maybe all cultures, had life cycles, the same as the humans who comprised them. And maybe there were things cultures…

— Barry Eisler

“I hadn’t meant to embarrass him. “Harry, I only ask because, when you’re young, you sometimes think you can have it both…

— Barry Eisler

“I pulled on a pair of shorts and did two hundred and fifty Hindu push-ups, five hundred Hindu squats, several minutes of…

— Barry Eisler

“At the table next to me was a Japanese man surrounded by three fawning hostesses. He looked superficially youthful, with radiant, white…

— Barry Eisler

“If there’s one lesson I learned early on during the decades I’ve spent in this business, it’s that of all the qualities…

— Barry Eisler

“People have rituals for communing with the dead, rituals that depend more on the idiosyncrasies of the individual than on the influence…

— Barry Eisler

“Getting into the club’s tax information gave me Yukiko’s last name: Nohara. From there, I was able to learn a reasonable amount.…

— Barry Eisler

“Avoiding the facility’s tangle of Life Cycles and Cybex machines, he had focused instead on a series of punches, blocks, and kicks…

— Barry Eisler

“I also went to Kyoto. I had found no occasion to visit the city in over twenty years, and was struck to…

— Barry Eisler

“He wiped his brow. “So. Consider this state of affairs from Yamaoto’s perspective. He understands that, with the immune system suppressed, there…

— Barry Eisler

“During one of the rest periods, I felt people pause in their workouts, felt their attention shift. The atmosphere in the room…

— Barry Eisler

“We found a cab. I got in first and she slid in behind me. She told the driver to take us to…

— Barry Eisler