by Barry Eisler
http://www.royaljellyjive.com
Ali Watkins, Huffington Post political reporter, helped me better understand the arcane workings of the Senate while the two of us happened to be lurking outside the Room 219 SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility) in the Hart Senate Office Building. And Mark Fallon and Steve Kleinman were also generous in sharing their experience from inside the SCIF (experience they’ve gained through tireless efforts to persuade American legislators that torture is a bad idea).
Thanks to Naomi Andrews, Judith Eisler, Blake Crouch, Barton Gellman, Dan Gillmor, Montie Guthrie, Mona Holland, Mike Killman, Lori Kupfer, Daniel Levin, Mark Steven Long, Genevieve Nine, Laura Rennert, Ken Rosenberg, Ted Schlein, Laura Schoeffel, Jennifer Soloway, Derek Thomas, Trevor Timm, and Alan Turkus for helpful comments on the manuscript.
Most of all, thanks to my wife, Laura, also mentioned above, for her help with the manuscript, who I really can’t thank enough. But I’m going to keep trying.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR . . . . . . . .
Photo © 2007 Naomi Brookner
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 award-winning thrillers 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 http://www.barryeisler.com.
