Speaker Profile
Author •The Detachment About Barry Eisler spent three years in a covert position with the CIA's Directorate
of Operations, then worked as a technology lawyer and startup executive in
Silicon Valley and Japan, earning his black belt at
the Kodokan International Judo Center along the way. Eisler's bestselling
thrillers have won the Barry Award and the Gumshoe Award for Best Thriller of
the Year, have been included in numerous "Best Of" lists, have been translated
into nearly twenty languages, and include the #1 bestseller The
Detachment. Eisler lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and, when he's not
writing novels, blogs about torture, civil liberties, and the rule of law. www.barryeisler.com |