Barry Eisler

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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books (8 Series)
  • First Book:
    Rain Fall // A Clean Kill in Tokyo (July 2002)
  • Latest Book:
    The System (June 2025)
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Full Series List in Order

Barry Eisler Stand Alones

The God's Eye View (Feb-2016)

Ben Treven

1 - Fault Line (Mar-2009)
2 - Inside Out (Jul-2010)
3 - The Detachment (Jan-2011)
4 - The Killer Collective (Jan-2019)

The Collective

1 - The Detachment (Jan-2011)
2 - The Killer Collective (Jan-2019)
3 - The Chaos Kind (Jan-2021)

Delilah

1 - Rain Storm // Choke Point // Winner Take All (Jul-2004)
2 - Killing Rain // One Last Kill // Redemption Games (Jun-2005)
3 - The Last Assassin // Extremis (Jun-2006)
4 - Requiem for an Assassin // Killer Ascendant (Jul-2007)
5 - Paris Is A Bitch: A Novella (Apr-2011)
6 - London Twist: A Novella (Feb-2013)
7 - The Killer Collective (Jan-2019)

Dox

1 - Killing Rain // One Last Kill // Redemption Games (Jun-2005)
2 - The Last Assassin // Extremis (Jun-2006)
3 - Requiem for an Assassin // Killer Ascendant (Jul-2007)
4 - The Detachment (Jan-2011)
5 - The Khmer Kill: A Novella (May-2012)
6 - The Night Trade (Jan-2018)
7 - The Killer Collective (Jan-2019)
8 - AMOK (Dec-2022)

John Rain

1 - Rain Fall // A Clean Kill in Tokyo (Jul-2002)
2 - Hard Rain // Blood from Blood // A Lonely Resurrection (Jul-2003)
3 - Rain Storm // Choke Point // Winner Take All (Jul-2004)
4 - Killing Rain // One Last Kill // Redemption Games (Jun-2005)
5 - The Last Assassin // Extremis (Jun-2006)
6 - Requiem for an Assassin // Killer Ascendant (Jul-2007)
6.5 - Paris Is A Bitch: A Novella (Apr-2011)
7 - The Detachment (Jan-2011)
8 - Graveyard of Memories (Feb-2014)
9 - Zero Sum (Jul-2017)
10 - The Killer Collective (Jan-2019)
11 - The Chaos Kind (Jan-2021)
11 - The Chaos Kind (duplicate) (Oct-2021)

Larison

1 - The Lost Coast (Feb-2011)

Livia Lone

1 - Livia Lone (Oct-2016)
2 - The Night Trade (Jan-2018)
3 - The Killer Collective (Jan-2019)
4 - All the Devils (Sep-2019)

Books in Order: 24 titles

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  • The System

    The System: A Novel of the Deep State A riveting exposé of the inner workings of American power -- as gripping as House of Cards and as fraught with personal dynamics as The Diplomat. Valeria Velez has just pulled off a stunning upset in Calif...

  • AMOK

    Dox - 8

    When the government offers a twenty-four-year-old former Marine a five-figure payday, there’s only one question: Who does he have to kill? 1990. A restless young man called Dox is back home in Texas. His friends have missed him, and his mother a...

  • The Chaos Kind (duplicate)

    John Rain - 11

    The assassins of Barry Eisler’s #1 bestseller The Killer Collective are back—and this time, it’s chaos.Assistant US Attorney Alondra Diaz hates traffickers. And she’s determined to put one of America’s most powerful fina...

  • The Chaos Kind

    John Rain - 11
    The Collective - 3

    The assassins of Barry Eisler’s #1 bestseller The Killer Collective are back -- and this time, it’s chaos. Assistant US Attorney Alondra Diaz hates traffickers. And she’s determined to put one of America’s most powerful financiers, Andrew ...

  • All the Devils

    Livia Lone - 4

    A search for a pair of serial rapists leads Livia Lone down the darkest and most dangerous trail of her life in a pulse-pounding thriller by New York Times bestselling author Barry Eisler. Ten years ago, the daughter of Homeland Security Investiga...

  • The Killer Collective

    Ben Treven - 4
    Delilah - 7
    Dox - 7
    John Rain - 10
    Livia Lone - 3
    The Collective - 2

    A fast-paced, page-turning novel of betrayal, vengeance, and depraved secrets in high places from the New York Times bestselling author of the John Rain and Livia Lone series. When a joint FBI -- Seattle Police investigation of an international ch...

  • The Night Trade

    Dox - 6
    Livia Lone - 2

    Livia Lone is back. For sex-crimes detective Livia Lone, a position with a government anti-trafficking task force is a chance to return to Thailand to ferret out Rithisak Sorm, the kingpin behind her own childhood ordeal. But after a planned ta...

  • Zero Sum

    John Rain - 9

    Returning to Tokyo in 1982 after a decade of mercenary work in the Philippines, a young John Rain learns that the killing business is now controlled by Victor, a half-Russian, half-Japanese sociopath who has ruthlessly eliminated all potential challe...

  • Livia Lone

    Livia Lone - 1

    Seattle PD sex-crimes detective Livia Lone knows the monsters she hunts. Sold by her Thai parents along with her little sister, Nason; marooned in America; abused by the men who trafficked them…the only thing that kept Livia alive as a teenager was...



  • The God's Eye View

    Barry Eisler Stand Alones

    Knowledge is power…and they know everything. NSA director Theodore Anders has a simple goal: collect every phone call, email, and keystroke tapped on the Internet. He knows unlimited surveillance is the only way to keep America safe. Evelyn G...

  • Graveyard of Memories

    John Rain - 8

    What makes a legendary assassin? For John Rain, it was the lessons of love, war, and betrayal he learned in Tokyo in 1972. Fresh from the killing fields of Southeast Asia, Rain works as a bagman under the watchful eye of his CIA handler, deliverin...

  • London Twist: A Novella

    Delilah - 6

    For Delilah, the Mossad's top seductress, the parameters of the assignment were routine. The contractor: MI6. The objective: infiltrate a terror network, this one operating out of London. The stakes: a series of poison gas attacks on civilian populat...

  • The Khmer Kill: A Novella

    Dox - 5

    For former Marine sniper Dox, a long-range hit in Cambodia was supposed to be just business as usual. But when you find yourself mixed up with rogue intelligence operations, gorgeous bar girls, and the world's worst human-trafficking heart of darknes...

  • Paris Is A Bitch: A Novella

    Delilah - 5
    John Rain - 6.5

    For most couples, a quiet dinner for two at Auberge de la Reine Blanche on the Ile Saint Louis would be just the thing to smooth out the complications in a romance. But for gorgeous Mossad operative Delilah and trying-to-retire contract killer John ...

  • The Lost Coast

    Larison - 1

    For Larison, a man off the grid and on the run, the sleepy northern California town of Arcata, gateway to the state's fabled Lost Coast, seems like a perfect place to disappear for a while. But Arcata isn't nearly as sleepy as it seems, and when thr...

  • The Detachment

    Ben Treven - 3
    Dox - 4
    John Rain - 7
    The Collective - 1

    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 lege...

  • Inside Out

    Ben Treven - 2

    Ghost detainees. And a massive cover-up that continues even today. This is the propulsive thriller that only former CIA operative turned bestselling novelist Barry Eisler could write. Marooned in a Manila jail after a bar fight fatality, bla...

  • Fault Line

    Ben Treven - 1

    In Silicon Valley, the eccentric inventor of a new encryption application is murdered in an apparent drug deal. In Istanbul, a cynical undercover operator receives a frantic call from his estranged brother, a patent lawyer who believes he is the nex...

  • Requiem for an Assassin // Killer Ascendant

    Delilah - 4
    Dox - 3
    John Rain - 6

    If you had to kill three people to save your best friend's life, would you do it? When John Rain decides to get out of the business, his hand is forced by rogue CIA operative Jim Hilger. Hilger kidnaps Dox, Rain's trusted partner and closest friend...



  • The Last Assassin // Extremis

    Delilah - 3
    Dox - 2
    John Rain - 5

    When freelance assassin John Rain learns that his former lover Midori has been raising their son in New York. he senses a chance for reconciliation, perhaps even redemption. But Midori is being watched by Rain's enemies, and his sudden appearance wou...

  • Killing Rain // One Last Kill // Redemption Games

    Delilah - 2
    Dox - 1
    John Rain - 4

    Now Rain has a new employer, the Mossad, which wants him to fix a "problem" in Manila with the aid of his new partner, Dox, whose good-Ol'-boy persona masks a sniper as deadly as Rain himself. He also has a new hope: By using his talents in the servi...

  • Rain Storm // Choke Point // Winner Take All

    Delilah - 1
    John Rain - 3

    Now Eisler takes Rain to the ends of the earth, where old habits die hard...and violently. John Rain has fled to Brazil to clear his killing conscience. But his talents are still in demand. The assignment: take out an arms dealer in Southeast Asia...

  • Hard Rain // Blood from Blood // A Lonely Resurrection

    John Rain - 2

    All John Rain wants is to disappear forever. What an old nemesis from Japan's FBI wants is one last favor: eliminate an assassin at large who kills without conscience. But there's a lot at stake--including the lives of Rain's few friends, and a love ...

  • Rain Fall // A Clean Kill in Tokyo

    John Rain - 1

    JOHN RAIN KILLS PEOPLE. FOR A LIVING. His specialty: making it seem like death by natural causes. But he won't take out just anyone. The job must be an exclusive. The target must be a principal player. And he'll never murder a woman. Half American, h...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Barry Eisler has published 24 books.

Barry Eisler does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The System, was published in June 2025.

The first book by Barry Eisler, Rain Fall // A Clean Kill in Tokyo, was published in July 2002.

Yes. Barry Eisler has 8 series.
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