by Barry Eisler
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Thanks as always to the extraordinarily eclectic group of “foodies with a violence problem” who hang out at Marc “Animal” MacYoung and Dianna Gordon MacYoung’s No Nonsense Self-Defense, for good humor, good fellowship, and a ton of insights, particularly regarding the real costs of violence.
Thanks to Naomi Andrews, Jacque Ben-Zekry, Wim Demeere, Gracie Doyle, Alan Eisler, Emma Eisler, Meredith Jacobson, Mike Killman, Phyllis DeBlanche, Lori Kupfer, Dan Levin, Maya Levin, Genevieve Nine, Laura Rennert, and Ted Schlein for helpful comments on the manuscript. Special thanks to Mike Killman for never letting me get lazy about creating action scenes that are both dramatic and tactically correct, and for his fascinating, discursive editorial comments generally.
Most of all, thanks to my wife and literary agent, Laura Rennert, for being such an amazing daily collaborator and otherwise doing so much to make these books better in every way. For anyone else grateful about how much faster I’ve been able to write the last four books (with The Night Trade completed just six months after Zero Sum!), Laura’s the one we owe it to. Thanks, babe, for everything.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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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 Judo Institute along the way. Eisler’s bestselling thrillers have won the Barry Award and the Gumshoe Award for Best Thriller, 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. Learn more at www.barryeisler.com.