{"id":1027,"date":"2004-09-27T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-27T21:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2015-12-22T14:51:44","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T18:51:44","slug":"hurricane-jeanne-and-rain-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1027","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Jeanne and Rain Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/z092704rain_storm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/z092704rain_storm.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">Hurricane Jeanne<\/b><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"> came and went without causing as much <\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">damage<\/b> to  our area as initially predicted. Still, I spent most of the last three days  helping to run a <b style=\"font-family: arial;\">hurricane relief shelter<\/b><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">. <\/span> <\/div>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">One of the best parts of that whole experience was that in my  downtime I had an opportunity to finish <b>Barry Eisler<\/b>&#8216;s third novel,  <b><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0399151923\/craizabls\" target=\"_blank\">Rain<\/a><\/u> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0399151923\/craizabls\"><u>Storm<\/u><\/a><\/b>.  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> <\/div>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">All of <b>Eisler<\/b>&#8216;s novels feature <b>John Rain<\/b>,  a <b>Japanese-American<\/b> &#8220;struggling with his own divided nature:<b>  <\/b>Japanese \/ American; soldier \/ assassin; samurai \/ ronin.&#8221;<b> Rain<\/b>, as  written by <b>Eisler<\/b> is &#8220;a remarkable creation, a multifaceted killer with  the soul of a poet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> <\/div>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\"><b>Eisler<\/b>&#8216;s first book,<b> <u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/045120915X\/craizabls\" target=\"_blank\">Rain<\/a><\/u> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/045120915X\/craizabls\"><u>Fall<\/u><\/a><\/b>,  put him on my <b>favorite author&#8217;s list<\/b>. His second, <u><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0399150528\/craizabls\" target=\"_blank\">Hard<\/a><\/b><\/u> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0399150528\/craizabls\"><b><u>Rain<\/u><\/b><\/a>,  proved that the first book wasn&#8217;t a fluke. <b><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0399151923\/craizabls\" target=\"_blank\">Rain<\/a><\/u> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0399151923\/craizabls\"><u>Storm<\/u><\/a><\/b>  cements <b>Eisler<\/b>&#8216;s place as one of the <b>best series writers<\/b> working.  Don&#8217;t take my word for it, check out  what EVERYONE is  saying. <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> <\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">Yeah, <\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">Eisler<\/b><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">&#8216;s that good. [So is <\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">John Rain<\/b><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">, for that  matter!]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Jeanne came and went without causing as much damage to our area as initially predicted. 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