Silicon Valley: the eccentric inventor of a new encryption application is murdered in an apparent drug deal. Istanbul: a cynical undercover operative receives a frantic call from his estranged brother, a patent lawyer who believes he'll be the next victim. And on the sun-drenched slopes of Sand Hill Road, California's nerve center of money and technology, old family hurts sting anew as two brothers who share nothing but blood and bitterness wage a desperate battle against a faceless enemy.Alex Treven has sacrificed everything to achieve his sole ambition: making partner in his high-tech law firm. But then the inventor of a technology Alex is banking on is murdered, the patent examiner who reviewed the innovation dies--and Alex himself narrowly escapes an attack in his own home. Off balance, out of ideas, and running out of time, he knows that the one person who can help him is the last person he'd ever ask: his brother.Ben Treven is a military liaison element, an elite undercover soldier paid to "find, fix, and finish" high-value targets in the United States global war on terror. Disenchanted with what he sees as America's culture of denial and decadence, Ben lives his detached life in the shadows because the black ops world is all he really knows--and because other than Alex, whom he hasn't spoken to since their mother died, his family is long gone. But blood is thicker than water, and when Ben receives Alex's frantic call he hurries to San Francisco to help him. Only then does Alex reveal that there's another player who knows of the technology: Sarah Hosseini, a young Iranian American lawyer whom Alex has long secretly desired--and whom Ben immediately distrusts. As these three struggle to identify the forces attempting to silence them, Ben and Alex are forced to examine the events that drove them apart--even as Sarah's presence, and her own secret yearnings, deepens the fault line between them.A full-throttle thriller that is both emotionally and politically charged, Fault Line centers on a conspiracy that has spun out of the shadows and onto the streets of America, a conspiracy that can be stopped by only three people--three people with different worldviews, different grievances, different motives. To survive the forces arrayed against them, they'll first have to survive one another.From the Hardcover edition.

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Barry Eisler

Random House Publishing Group

Random House, Incorporated

Ivy Books

Fawcett

United States, United States of America

New York, ©2009

April 27, 2010

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Two estranged brothers are forced to confront their painful past when one becomes a target in an international struggle for control of a powerful new technology. The younger of the two, Alex Treven, is on the verge of making partner in a Silicon Valley high-tech law firm; the older brother, Ben, is an Iraq War veteran stationed in Istanbul as a Military Liaison Element - a deep undercover soldier tasked to quietly 'find, fix, and finish' Global War on Terror targets. Alex and Ben haven't spoken in seven years, but the silence is broken after Alex detects a pattern of violence involving his colleagues... and pointing right at him. When he is attacked in his apartment, he calls Ben. They're assisted by a colleague of Alex's, a beautiful lawyer of Iranian descent named Sarah, who herself becomes a target. The attraction Ben and Alex both feel for her serves to complicate things further, and as Alex and Ben struggle to find out who is coming after them and why, they're forced to examine the causes for their rift, and to make some surprising choices that might bring them closer together... if they survive.
Thrillers; General; Fiction

When A Client Is Murdered And He Himself Is Attacked, Attorney Alex Treven Reluctantly Turns To His Estranged Older Brother, Ben, An Undercover Agent In The War On Terror, But Their Long-simmering Resentments Threaten To Erupt When Ben Meets Sarah Hosseini, A Beautiful Legal Associate Whom Alex Cares For And Ben Does Not Trust. Reprint. A Best-selling Thriller.

When an inventor client is murdered and he himself is attacked, attorney Alex Treven reluctantly turns for help to his estranged older brother, Ben, an undercover agent in the War on Terror

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