Mark recently wrote a guest post for Omnimystery News in which he discussed the inspiration for his new psychological thriller, Mad Dog House, what went into his writing process, and where he found some of the ideas for the novel. His guest post can be found in its entirety here.
Barry Eisler’s John Rain Thrillers – The Detachment
I’ve read all the John Rain thrillers over the last few years. They are extremely engrossing. The details of Tokyo and Japanese culture are incredible. Eisler paints pictures of the city and other locales (Europe and the United States) in such a colorful way, it makes you feel you’re actually there.His descriptions of John Rain’s precautionary methods, his shadowy lifestyle, and how Rain carries out his killing assignments are chilling, ingenious, and believable. His relationships with CIA rogues, renegades, and other assassins are drawn with skill and complexity.
Even more complicated are John Rain’s relationships with his lover Midori and with his Mossad agent-lover, Delilah.
In these novels, Eisler got me to experience something I wasn’t certain could happen: I cared deeply about a paid assassin who is a loner and a man without a country and seemingly without a conscience.
I recently read The Detachment, the latest John Rain novel, and Eisler managed to keep up the same level of tension and suspense as in the previous stories.
— Mark Rubinstein, author, Mad Dog House (October 2012)
The Detachment
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