Né en 1964 dans le New Jersey, Barry Eisler a fait des études de droit puis a passé trois ans au service du gouvernement américain. Pendant dix ans, il a exercé plusieurs fonctions dans le domaine du droit international. Il a notamment travaillé un an à Tokyo puis deux ans à Osaka. Passionné d'arts martiaux, il est ceinture noire de judo. Il pratique également le jiu-jitsu et le catch. Aujourd'hui, il réside dans la baie de San Francisco, où il se consacre à l'écriture, tout en continuant à voyager régulièrement au Japon et en Asie. Ses livres sont traduits dans une douzaine de langues, et l'acteur Jet Li a pris une option sur les droits cinématographiques. Après La Chute de John R (2003 ; Pocket, 2005), Tokyo Blues (2005 ; Pocket, 2006) et Macao Blues (2006 ; Pocket, 2007), Belfond publie le quatrième volet des aventures de John Rain : Une traque impitoyable (2007).
Amoureux du Japon, grand amateur de jazz et de whisky, spécialiste des combats, curieux de tout, Barry Eisler se sert de ses recherches et de ses passions, aussi variées qu'originales, pour bâtir l'univers de John Rain, un monde envoûtant, effrayant, mais largement inspiré de faits d'actualité. Son plus grand plaisir : voir ses lecteurs se poser la question : " Et si tout ça était vrai ? " Son plus grand défi : faire de son héros - un dangereux criminel - un personnage que le lecteur va comprendre, et même aimer. Et, non seulement ses intrigues sont effroyablement réalistes, mais John Rain est le plus fascinant des héros de séries policières.
In Silicon Valley, the eccentric inventor of a new encryption application is murdered in an apparent drug deal.
In Istanbul, a cynical undercover operator receives a frantic call from his estranged brother, a patent lawyer who believes he is the next victim.
And on the sun-drenched slopes of Sand Hill Road, Silicon Valley's nerve center of money and technology, old family hurts sting anew as two brothers who share nothing but blood and bitterness wage a desperate battle against a faceless enemy.
Alex Treven has sacrificed everything to achieve his sole ambition: making partner in his high-tech law firm. But then the inventor of a technology Alex is banking on is murdered… and the patent examiner who reviewed it dies… and Alex himself narrowly escapes an attack in his own home. Off balance, out of ideas, and running out of time, he knows the one person who can help him is the last person he'd ever ask: his brother.
Ben Treven is a Military Liaison Element, an elite undercover soldier paid to "find, fix, and finish" high-value targets in America's Global War on Terror. Disenchanted with what he sees as America's culture of denial and decadence, Ben lives his detached life in the shadows because the black ops world is all he really knows—and because other than Alex, who he hasn't spoken to since their mother died, his family is long gone.
But blood is thicker than water, and when he receives Alex's frantic call, Ben hurries to San Francisco to help him. Only then does Alex reveal that there's another player who knows of the technology: Sarah Hosseini, a young Iranian American lawyer who Alex has long secretly desired… and who Ben immediately distrusts. As these three radically different people struggle to identify the forces attempting to silence them, Ben and Alex are forced to examine the events that drove them apart—even as Sarah's presence, and her own secret wants, deepens the fault line between them.
Emotionally charged and politically timely, FAULT LINE centers on a conspiracy that has spun out of the shadows and into the streets of America, a conspiracy that can be stopped only by three people—three people with different worldviews, different grievances, different motives. To survive the forces arrayed against them, they'll first have to survive each other.
"The first blogosphere thriller... Eisler's novel, which turns entirely on a super-secret assassinations program, is looking less like fiction and more like the work of someone who has a firm grip on what's really happening." —Scott Horton, Harper's Magazine
Título : Fault Line
EAN : 9781370523726
Editorial : Barry Eisler
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