Facing Violence

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.

Eisler's bestselling thrillers, have won the Barry Award and the Gumshoe Award for Best Thriller of the Year and have been included in a number "Best Of" lists. He is the author of A John Rain Thriller Ser. He is also the author of Fault Line and Inside Out.

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