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“She’s a bargirl. You don’t know where her loyalties lie. That one was unconvincing. No one had directed her against me—I was the one…

— Barry Eisler

“In my unpleasant experience, unarmed against a knife, you’ve basically got four options. Your best bet is to run like hell, if you can.…

— Barry Eisler

The most important guideline when it comes to argument is the golden rule. If someone were addressing your point, what tone, what overall approach…

— Barry Eisler

“That I was apparently into body building at all at this stage in my life probably meant affairs with young women, for whom a…

— Barry Eisler

“Immediately the sounds of the street below grew detached, distant, the meaningless echoes of urban voices whose urgent notes reached but held no sway…

— Barry Eisler

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

— Barry Eisler

“I shifted my head slightly. The corners of our mouths brushed together. I felt her breath on my cheek. Then we were kissing. Her…

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“I looked at her. Why was it her question seemed suffused with double entendre? She was attractive, of course, more than attractive, but that…

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“I realized my knowledge of that potentially damning evidence gave Delilah a reason to want me out of the way. “Out of the way”…

— Barry Eisler

“I wouldn’t want to try to take this guy out with anything less than a scoped rifle. Which is something that’s hard to confuse…

— Barry Eisler

“I picked up the earthen cup and went to take a sip. “Not like that,” Miyamoto said. “Let it cool a little. Give yourself…

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“It seemed he’d recently learned the value of playing up the difficulty of accomplishing whatever he was tasked with, the better to play the…

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“Yukiko walked over, her mouth stretching into a feline grin at the sight of Murakami. Naomi followed a moment later. She was wearing another…

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It would be awesome to be so impressive that we could sway people to our way of thinking just by declaiming our thoughts, but…

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