The Detachment (John Rain Thrillers)
Book Description:John Rain is back.  And “the most charismatic assassin since James Bond” (San Francisco Chronicle) is up against his most formidable enemy yet:  the nexus of political, military, media, and corporate factions known only as the Oligarchy.When legendary black ops veteran Colonel Scott “Hort” Horton tracks Rain down in Tokyo, Rain can’t resist the offer:  a multi-million dollar payday for the “natural causes” demise of three ultra-high-profile targets who are dangerously close to launching a coup in America.But the opposition on this job is going to be too much for even Rain to pull it off alone.  He’ll need a detachment of other deniable irregulars:  his partner, the former Marine sniper, Dox.  Ben Treven, a covert operator with ambivalent motives and conflicted loyalties.  And Larison, a man with a hair trigger and a secret he’ll kill to protect.From the shadowy backstreets of Tokyo and Vienna, to the deceptive glitz and glamour of Los Angeles and Las Vegas, and finally to a Washington, D.C. in a permanent state of war, these four lone wolf killers will have to survive presidential hit teams, secret CIA prisons, and a national security state as obsessed with guarding its own secrets as it is with invading the privacy of the populace.But first, they’ll have to survive each other.The Detachmentis what fans of Eisler, “one of the most talented and literary writers in the thriller genre” (Chicago Sun-Times), have been waiting for:  the worlds of the award-winning Rain series, and of the bestsellingFault LineandInside Out, colliding in one explosive thriller as real as today’s headlines and as frightening as tomorrow’s.J.A. Konrath and Blake Crouch ReviewThe Detachment Bestselling authorsJ.A. KonrathandBlake Crouchare the co-writers of the thrillerStirred, available on Kindle November 22, 2011,   and in paperback on February 21, 2012. Read on for their one line reviews of Barry Eisler'sThe   Detachment, or click the link below to read their full review:J.A. Konrath:"I read it so quickly that my eyeballs got whiplash."Blake Crouch:"I read this book on a 12-hour flight, after I'd already been up for 18 hours.   Anything less than flat-out riveting and I would've instantly been asleep. It was like literary   adrenaline."Continue Reading Konrath's and Crouch's   Review ofThe DetachmentPersonal Safety Tips from Assassin John Rain (Written by Barry Eisler)Barry Eislerspent three years in a covert position with the CIA, then   worked as a   technology lawyer and start-up executive in Silicon Valley and Japan, earning his   black belt at   the Kodokan International Judo Center along the way. Eisler's bestselling John   Rain thrillers   have won the Barry Award and the Gumshoe Award for Best Thriller of the Year,   have been included   in numerous "Best Of" lists, and have been translated into nearly 20   languages.Read on for   personal safety tips from assassin John Rain:All effective personal protection, all effective security, all true self-defense, is based on     the ability and willingness to think like the opposition.I'm writing this article on my laptop in a crowded coffee shop I like. There are a number of     other people around me similarly engaged. I think to myself, If I wanted to steal a laptop, this     would be a pretty good place to do it. You come in, order coffee and a muffin, sit, and wait.     Eventually, one of these computer users is going to get up and make a quick trip to the bathroom.     He'll be thinking, "Hey, I'll only be gone for a minute." He doesn't know that a minute is all   I   need to get up and walk out with his $3,000 laptop. (Note how criminals are adept at thinking     like their victims. You need to treat them with the same respect.)Okay. I've determined where the opposition is planning on carrying out his crime (this coffee     shop), and I know how he's going to do it (snatch and dash). I now have options:avoid the coffee shop entirely (avoid where the crime will occur);secure my laptop to a chair with a twenty dollar Kensington security cable (avoid how the   crime will occur--it's hard to employ bolt cutters unobtrusively in a coffee shop, or to carry   away a laptop that has a chair hanging off it); andhope to catch the thief in the act, chase him down, engage him with violence.Continue Reading Personal Safety   Tips from Assassin John Rain