I Need Your Help

Here is the problem. There is a writer named Barry Eisler who has written six absolutely fascinating books about a character named John Rain. The plotting is tight, the characters are so finely sketched that you think you really know them, and the locales are so precisely described you are sure you are there.

Now the thing is that Barry Eisler was in Black Ops with the CIA so you have to wonder how much of each story was taken from real life. There must be some scary stuff going on out there that never gets known.

Barry's latest book,Inside Out, has a new character, Ben Treven, who is also a Black Ops with the CIA. Inside Out is not nearly as well written as the John Rain stories, but it raises a much more profound question. Barry Eisler says the country is run by a cabal about like Eisenhower described with his "military-industrial complex", e.g., Black Water, Halliburton, Dick Cheney, et al, and that it operates mostly in the full open. He also says they conduct kidnapings and torture.

Your first reaction will be to dismiss these claims as pure invention. Then, at the end, you find seven pages of sources and references!! That is when you begin to get a funny feeling in your stomach. And then you remember Barry's job with Black Ops, and you really get nervous.

Here is the help I need. Read Inside Out and tell my your conclusion. I will report on all the reviews.

Thank you.