Inside Out Ben Treven Book 2 eBook Barry Eisler
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Torture.
Ghost Detainees.
And a massive cover-up that continues even today.
Marooned in a Manila jail after a bar fight fatality, black ops soldier Ben Treven gets a visit from his former commander, Colonel Scott Horton, who explains the price of Ben’s release find and eliminate Daniel Larison, a rogue operator from Ben’s unit who has stolen ninety-two torture tapes from the CIA and is using them to blackmail the U.S. government.
But other players are after the tapes, too, and to find Larison, Ben will have to survive CIA hit teams, Blackwater mercenaries, and the long reach of the White House. He’ll also have to find a way to handle Paula Lanier, a smart, sexy FBI agent who has her own reasons for wanting the tapes and is determined to get them before Ben does. With the stakes this high, everyone has an angle—everyone but Ben, who will have to find the right alliance if he wants to stay alive.
“A thrill-seeker’s book... Perhaps most interesting of all, the story is based on true events 92 missing CIA interrogation tapes that allegedly included recordings of prisoners being tortured. Eisler’s latest offering doesn’t reinvent the genre, but it certainly pumps it full of adrenaline.” —The Daily Beast
“Page-turningly addictive, and a plot that owes much to the realities of modern-day America.”
—Andy Worthington, author of THE GUANTANAMO FILES
“Addictive... a microscope turned on the official policies of torture, extraordinary rendition, and the systematic ghosting of detainees.”
—Matthew Alexander, author of HOW TO BREAK A TERRORIST
“A white knuckle roller-coaster ride through the dark side...”
—Robert Baer, author of SEE NO EVIL
Inside Out Ben Treven Book 2 eBook Barry Eisler
Having been rebuffed by the mother of his child when he attempts to reconnect with his daughter, black ops specialist Ben Treven finds himself in a Manilla jail after severely injuring two men in a bar fight. Scott Horton, his one-time commanding officer, arrives to spring him, and Ben, with no other options for release, is once more in the employ of the commander who betrayed him. Now, he's on the trail of another one-time employee of Horton's - a man named Larrison, whom many thought dead - who has possession of top secret information that could ruin a number of highly placed individuals in Washington, DC.Not only does Larrison have video tapes showing the gruesome torture of detainees in the "war on terror" by U.S. military and intelligence personnel and a paper trail of authorizations, he's got additional information on a group of people known only as "the Caspers", which is potentially even more explosive. Larrison, one of the very torturers on the tapes, is demanding $100 million in uncut diamonds in exchange for the recordings, with the goal of not only disappearing and starting a new life, but getting the nightmares that constantly haunt him to stop.
Treven soon finds himself with an unwelcome partner, FBI Special Agent Paula Lanier, and both are in pursuit of Larrison to Costa Rica. As the risks and the danger escalate, Ben is increasingly uncertain whether he can trust Lanier or Horton, or if Larrison is even the villain he appears to be. Meanwhile, those in danger of exposure from the missing tapes are closing in from all sides, and it may not matter who trusts whom, as they are all in the crossfire.
With "Inside Out", Barry Eisler returns to form with his follow-up to the subpar (by Eisler standards) "Fault Line", which introduced Ben Treven. Treven remains a conflicted and still-maturing characater and like the first novel, this one is recounted in the third person, but gone are the adolescent histrionics from the protagonist and over-explication in the narration. Eisler touches on some of the most pressing questions surrounding the compromises America has made with itself in the name of "keeping ourselves safe" in the wake of 9/11, but does so without heavy-handedness. The pace, as one would expect from having read the author's previous work is propulsive, the characters are well drawn, and the story is ripped from real world events. Although Treven remains a second-tier creation next to Eisler's character John Rain, he starts to stand on his own with "Inside Out", and while the ending is not neatly tied in a bow, it should be noted that this book is, in essence, a bridge to "The Detachment".
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Inside Out Ben Treven Book 2 eBook Barry Eisler Reviews
Good and bad
This book starts off like a fire cracker and I couldn't put it down. Then it sort of lost its momentum about three quarters way through and turned into a political monologue at the end. Good philosophical insights, probably all too accurate an appraisal about how the government's twisted mechanics. But I'm not sure I was looking for so much serious "truth" in an Eisler thriller. As another reviewer put it, it is "too political".
Still I have to give it three out of five stars for being able to sustain good action and character development sans John Rain ( although he is mentioned in the story more than once). All in all a good read, and great if you really want to peer into what may be the way our government really works!
I look forward to More of Eisler's works with his new character Ben but with a little less political introspection.
If you were disappointed with Fault Line, you will be disappointed again here, though maybe not as much. This book is a little improved by the introduction of the Larison character. Also, the pacing is much improved from the last novel as this one moves a little faster. There is also more action than Fault Line, and you get to see Larison do some things that are very "Courtland Gentry" like, if you are familiar with the Mark Greaney novels.
However, this book is Eisler's first "all in" soapbox novel where he espouses his politics every chance he gets. The book is dedicated to bloggers, for pete's sake. The problem is that Eisler never suggests any solutions in his novels. Eisler complains about the politics of the day and the press and everything that goes along with it, but like the novel, comes to no conclusion. Like Fault Line, in the end, this novel just fizzles out without any real closure, which you don't really understand unless you realize at the end of the novel and then read the detachment that Eisler was intending to bring all the characters together. In some respects, you can say that the Detachment is the "end" of Fault Line and Inside Out.
One final note, Eisler likes to put at least one pretty explicit bedroom scene in his novels. They are generally awkward but again, as a fan, you bear down and get through it to get back to the story. The one in this story, however, is just way over the top. I'm not sure what Eisler was going for here but it was the first time I actually considered just skipping pages to get back to the story.
Eisler is at his best when he's doing his cloak and dagger stuff, talking about surveillance countermeasures and the hand to hand self defense in the Rain novels. There is some of that here, so again, Eisler fans like me won't be wholly disappointed, but more than ever you'll be missing the middle aged Asian assassin.
The book had a slow start, almost unbearably slow after the pell mell action of the first Dan Treven book. Set in Costa Rica, this book tells of an interaction of Treven and Larigan, both extremely competent assassins who worked for Horton. Larigan was blackmailing the CIA for torture tapes they made and he had absconded with and now wanted $100 million in diamonds for. Of course, everybody knows the game. There is no such thing as an end to the blackmail. You have to kill the blackmailer. Treven was sent by Horton to find Larigan. Along the way, a good-looking black woman from the FBI joins the search when Treven questions Larigan’s former wife. Treven of course finds Larigan and observes the man in action.
Having been rebuffed by the mother of his child when he attempts to reconnect with his daughter, black ops specialist Ben Treven finds himself in a Manilla jail after severely injuring two men in a bar fight. Scott Horton, his one-time commanding officer, arrives to spring him, and Ben, with no other options for release, is once more in the employ of the commander who betrayed him. Now, he's on the trail of another one-time employee of Horton's - a man named Larrison, whom many thought dead - who has possession of top secret information that could ruin a number of highly placed individuals in Washington, DC.
Not only does Larrison have video tapes showing the gruesome torture of detainees in the "war on terror" by U.S. military and intelligence personnel and a paper trail of authorizations, he's got additional information on a group of people known only as "the Caspers", which is potentially even more explosive. Larrison, one of the very torturers on the tapes, is demanding $100 million in uncut diamonds in exchange for the recordings, with the goal of not only disappearing and starting a new life, but getting the nightmares that constantly haunt him to stop.
Treven soon finds himself with an unwelcome partner, FBI Special Agent Paula Lanier, and both are in pursuit of Larrison to Costa Rica. As the risks and the danger escalate, Ben is increasingly uncertain whether he can trust Lanier or Horton, or if Larrison is even the villain he appears to be. Meanwhile, those in danger of exposure from the missing tapes are closing in from all sides, and it may not matter who trusts whom, as they are all in the crossfire.
With "Inside Out", Barry Eisler returns to form with his follow-up to the subpar (by Eisler standards) "Fault Line", which introduced Ben Treven. Treven remains a conflicted and still-maturing characater and like the first novel, this one is recounted in the third person, but gone are the adolescent histrionics from the protagonist and over-explication in the narration. Eisler touches on some of the most pressing questions surrounding the compromises America has made with itself in the name of "keeping ourselves safe" in the wake of 9/11, but does so without heavy-handedness. The pace, as one would expect from having read the author's previous work is propulsive, the characters are well drawn, and the story is ripped from real world events. Although Treven remains a second-tier creation next to Eisler's character John Rain, he starts to stand on his own with "Inside Out", and while the ending is not neatly tied in a bow, it should be noted that this book is, in essence, a bridge to "The Detachment".
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