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The System: A Novel of the Deep State

Barry Eisler

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Brad Feld loved it
I love Barry’s writing and read every book he writes. He has total mastery of the contemporary thriller with extraordinarily vibrant characters and a zillion endnotes that tie to things that are actually happening in the real world.

on feld.com · 19 Jun 2025

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.