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Barry Eisler is a best-selling American novelist. He is the author of two thriller series, the first featuring anti-hero John Rain, a half-Japanese, half-American former soldier turned freelance assassin, and a second featuring black ops soldier Ben Treven. Eisler also writes about politics and language on his blog "Heart of the Matter", and at the blogs CHUD, Firedoglake, The Huffington Post, MichaelMoore.com, The Smirking Chimp, and Truthout.
He 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 along the way.
Eisler's bestselling thrillers have been translated into nearly twenty languages and have won the Barry Award and the Gumshoe Award for Best Thriller of the Year. In August 2014, Slingshot Global Media announced the launch of a new TV series 'Rain' based on the John Rain Novels. Keanu Reeves will portray the iconic character.
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.
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Barry Eisler Answers....
Q. Why does Rain like single malt whiskey?
This is a tough one to answer -- why does someone like a certain
color? Or a certain way of making love? Beyond the idiosyncrasies of taste,
though, Rain's affinity for the single malts might be related to their
character, which is formed, more than that of any other spirit, by the
environment. Wood, water, air, soil. Barley and peat. The shape of the
pot-still. The location and length of maturation. The proximity of the sea.
Change one of these or a hundred other variables, and you will produce a
recognizably different malt.
And then there's the taste -- so many complex flavors and
smells, and yet, when done right, cohering in something harmonious and even
sublime.
In all this Rain might find a microcosm of human nature.
Rain also likes the mood of single malts (a case of synesthesia?),
something most perfectly expressed in Bar Satoh, a singular whiskey bar in Osaka
that, not coincidentally, plays nothing but jazz, and that makes a Tokyo
appearance in Rain Fall.
Q. Why does Rain like jazz?
This is another tough one, because musical tastes tend to be
idiosyncratic, and our stated reasons for liking something will, upon
examination, ...
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