Thursday, September 15, 2011

Today's The Day: John Rain Is Back

I'm delighted to announce that the digital and audio versions of the new Rain novel, The Detachment, are available now, exclusively through the Amazon Kindle Store and through Amazon's affiliates, Brilliance and Audible (I did the audio version, and you can listen to a sample here). The paper and CD audio versions will be available wherever books are sold on October 18 (and can be preordered now through Amazon). Tour dates—which will coincide with the paper release—will be up on my website soon. Here's more:

John Rain is back. And "the most charismatic assassin since James Bond" (San Francisco Chronicle) is up against his most formidable enemy yet: the nexus of political, military, media, and corporate factions known only as the Oligarchy.

When legendary black ops veteran Colonel Scott "Hort" Horton tracks Rain down in Tokyo, Rain can't resist the offer: a multi-million dollar payday for the "natural causes" demise of three ultra-high-profile targets who are dangerously close to launching a coup in America.

But the opposition on this job is going to be too much for even Rain to pull it off alone. He'll need a detachment of other deniable irregulars: his partner, the former Marine sniper, Dox. Ben Treven, a covert operator with ambivalent motives and conflicted loyalties. And Larison, a man with a hair trigger and a secret he'll kill to protect.

From the shadowy backstreets of Tokyo and Vienna, to the deceptive glitz and glamour of Los Angeles and Las Vegas, and finally to a Washington, D.C. in a permanent state of war, these four lone-wolf killers will have to survive presidential hit teams, secret CIA prisons, and a national security state as obsessed with guarding its own secrets as it is with invading the privacy of the populace.

But first, they'll have to survive each other.

The Detachment is what fans of Eisler, "one of the most talented and literary writers in the thriller genre" (Chicago Sun-Times), have been waiting for: the worlds of the award-winning Rain series, and of the bestselling Fault Line and Inside Out, colliding in one explosive thriller as real as today's headlines and as frightening as tomorrow's.


Want to read Q&A on various aspects of the book, along with the first five chapters? I'm a guest today at five excellent blogs. Here's where to go:

Chapter 1 – Truthout: The politics of The Detachment
Chapter 2 – A Brain Scientist’s Take on Writing: The book’s unusual path to publication
Chapter 3 – Buzz, Balls & Hype: The book’s image system
Chapter 4 – Jungle Red Writers: Combining the series worlds of Rain and Treven
Chapter 5 – A Newbie’s Guide to Writing: Publishing a book with Amazon

For more on digital books, please see the Digital FAQ on my website. There's also a program called Kindle for PC that will allow you to download the book from the Kindle Store and read it on your PC, a program called Kindle for Android that will allow you to download it from the Kindle Store and read it on your Android device, and a program called Kindle for Mac (available from Amazon and Apple's App Store) that will allow you to download it from the Kindle Store and read it on your Mac computer, iPad, or iPhone.

If you're wondering why the digital edition of The Detachment is available before the paper edition, the reason is that paper takes longer to prepare and ship (glue, boxes, trucks, warehouses) than digital. My goal, and Amazon's, is to get all editions to readers as quickly as possible, and because, by its nature, digital can be readied for publication more quickly, the digital edition of The Detachment is being released first. Syncing up the release of the digital and paper versions would mean sitting on the digital edition until October 18th, and that doesn't strike me as a fair or sensible approach. This way, all readers can get the edition they want as soon as it's ready.

Thanks for all your support, and I hope you enjoy reading The Detachment as much as I enjoyed writing it!

Barry

Update: Nook and other ePub reader users, the book was mistakenly DRMed. The problem is now fixed, and if you had a problem converting, please just follow the instructions below and you should be good to go. My apologies for the mistake and the inconvenience.

"All they need to do is delete the file from their local application/device (Kindle for the PC, Kindle for the Mac, etc) and then re-download the book from their Amazon account to get the DRM free version. If people have questions – they can call Amazon Kindle CS team at 866-321-8851. We posted an article about it so that our CS reps are aware of the situation and how to fix the problem."

8 comments:

Hunter F. Goss said...

@#!n. Yet another book that has to go into my reading queue!

Good luck with ‘The Detachment’. Hope that putting this one out with Thomas & Mercer turns out to be every bit the good move you want it to be.

LnBen said...

Rain,Dox,Treven,and Larison coerced into working as a team...you have enough tension to ignite a new sun!
Enough fact to make the plot plausible and enough fiction to make it fun. Written in a style that makes the reader more of a participant than an observer.
Well done,Barry,well done.
(from my review)

Question is where do you go from here?

Amy Pabalan said...

You know I'll be at one of your signings. Or more. Just another friendly stalker.

David L. Shutter said...

Congrats Barry!! Amazon is using your detachment cover to sell kindles, awesome.

Jon Olson said...

Rain is back, yes, but LARISON is back, that's the headline for me.

Can't wait!

Jon Olson
The Petoskey Stone
The Ride Home

David Gaughran said...

Congratulations Barry, quite the launch. I see The Detachment is up to #7 in the Kindle Store. Well done.

blubeetle said...

Dear Barry,

I look up the photo collection you made for research of all your books. It made me wonder, how do you finance all those? I mean, could all those be possible only when you are dealing with legacy publishers, since they're the ones picking up the tabs in relation to the book they're about to publish?

Can't imagine, really. The fligt costs alone would kill me. :(

I realize that being a good writer of your caliber is impossible without doing at least half the similar measures you're taking--especially the going-about-places research. Even if my book is all about fantasy land and whatnot, it would still require the same real-thing aura of descriptions and vibes you could only get from traveling and feeling the places personally.

I know it's not mandatory as a writing method per se, but it does make all the difference when put into words. The vibes between going-about-places writers and those who conjure everything up by sitting endlessly before a computer and do the same via internet.

Jason Fuller said...

Just wanted to say how much I enjoyed The Detachment. I have just recently started to read books for recreation and The Detachment was the first book that I bought for my new Kindle. I finished it within a few days and have now purchased the first book of the Rain series. I plan to read them all. I have really enjoyed your writing. Keep the books coming.