“ Trust your gut. When you felt something was off, you had to believe that feeling, even if you couldn’t articulate the basis. Barry Eisler
“ Then she reached lower and started to ease my pants down. I stopped her so I could get my shoes and socks off first. Pants-pooled-at-the-ankles is too helpless a posture for me. Barry Eisler
“ Sometimes you need the anesthesia. Because what you learn about yourself when fear finally overtakes you isn’t pretty. You understand that the person you thought of as yourself, your immutable, indivi… Barry Eisler
“ Shoganai, I said. Literally, There is no way of doing it. Yes, he said, nodding. Elsewhere they have Cest la vie, or That’s life. Barry Eisler
“ She laughed. Good. You still haven’t told me what you were afraid of. I thought for a moment. Drowsiness was settling on me like a blanket. Of getting involved. Like you said, I haven’t been with some… Barry Eisler
“ Relax, he said again, probably reading my thoughts from my expression. I’ll get you the other file. I considered telling him what would happen if he didn’t, but recognized that doing so would have bee… Barry Eisler
“ On the other stage, there was a girl who looked like a mix of Japanese and something Mediterranean or Latin. A good mix. She had that silky, almost shimmering black hair so many modern Japanese women… Barry Eisler
“ My mother had tried to raise me as a Catholic, but war had deracinated whatever meager plantings her efforts had achieved. No God ever would have stood silent spectator to what I saw in Vietnam. To wh… Barry Eisler
“ It was only later that I came to learn how dangerous it is to allow yourself to be seduced by that first attractive theory. If you don’t keep testing for alternatives, you might wind up satisfying you… Barry Eisler
“ It was fascinating, how people could be so reluctant to recognize blackmail, how eager they could be to convince themselves it was something else, even something fundamentally mutually cooperative. An… Barry Eisler
“ In the last six months, he went on, there have been two deaths, apparently by suicide. The victims were both high-level banking executives in soon-to-be merged institutions. Each seems to have leaped… Barry Eisler
“ I thought of an old poker players’ expression: If you look around the table and can’t spot the sucker, the sucker is you. Barry Eisler
“ I heard laughter and looked up. Some kids at the terminal next to me, playing an online game. I wondered for a moment how I had gotten here. And I wondered if maybe this is what Tatsu had meant when h… Barry Eisler
“ I heard a bolt moving, then the door opened. It was Washio. You’re early, he said. I shrugged. I rarely make appointments. You don’t want to give someone the opportunity to fix you in time and place.… Barry Eisler
“ I didn’t think you’d know it. You’re a little… older. I laughed. If she’d been trying to get a rise out of me, she had missed the mark. I’m never going to be sensitive about my age. Most of the people… Barry Eisler
“ Graham smiled and filled it all the way, then said, What the hell and did the same for his own. He took a sip and made an mmmmm sound. That’s a Peruvian varietal, from Ritual Coffee Roasters in San Fr… Barry Eisler
“ At the outset of the second of these Hong Kong excursions, I noticed an Arab standing in the lobby of the Macau Mandarin Oriental as we moved through it. He was new, not one of Belghazi’s bodyguards.… Barry Eisler
“ Some traveler from the undiscovered country. I know as well as I know anything the dead are simply dead. Barry Eisler
“ No matter the pain or shock or confusion, never stop moving. Never give them a stationary target. Barry Eisler
“ There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults;… Barry Eisler
