Review: Fault Line, by Barry Eisler |

Alex Treven is a lawyer at a prestigious law firm. He represents the inventor of a encryption program. When both the inventor and the patent officer wind up dead, Alex begins to wonder if he is in danger. He attempts to contact his brother, Ben, whom he hasn’t talked to in seven years, to ask for help. He knows his brother was in the military and may be able to offer some level of protection.

Ben is an undercover who is tasked to eliminate targets in the war against terror. When he receives his brother’s email, he’s furious that Alex has dared to ask him for help. Their rocky relationship was due to a family trauma when they were both young. The each dealt with it in different ways: Alex stayed close to home and devoted himself to his parents and Ben dropped out of college and enrolled in the military.

Ben returns to his boyhood home and provides protection to Alex and Sarah Hosseini, a legal associate. Several “agencies” have an interest in the encryption program, and will stop at nothing to prevent the patent from going through.

FAULT LINE is a fast-paced, action-packed thriller. The character development is very strong, we learn more and more about Ben and Alex in each passing chapter. There are several underlying story lines that all wind together to wrap up an amazing book! This book is guaranteed to grab your attention from page one! I was a little overwhelmed with all the talk of technology in the first few chapters, but once the pace of the storyline quickened, I wasn’t able to put this book down!

About the Author:

After graduating from Cornell Law School, 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. Eisler’s thrillers have won the Barry Award and the Gumshoe Award for Best Thriller of the Year, have been included in numerous “Best Of” lists, and have been translated into nearly twenty languages. The first book in Eisler’s assassin John Rain series, Rain Fall, has been made into a movie starring Gary Oldman that was released by Sony Pictures in April 2009.

For more information about the author or his work, please visit http://www.barryeisler.com

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