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  • Bibliography:
    53 Books (8 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1977
  • Latest Book:
    May 2023
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About the Author

Eric Van Lustbader is the author of more than twenty-five best-selling novels, including The Ninja, a New York Times bestseller for 24 weeks, in which he introduced Nicholas Linnear, one of modern fictions most beloved and enduring heroes. His New York Times bestselling novel, "The Testament," was published in September, 2006 and in paperback in August, 2007.
His novels have been translated into over twenty languages; his books are best-sellers worldwide and are so popular whole sections of bookstores from Bangkok to Dublin are devoted to them. The Ninja was sold to 20th Century-Fox. It is now in pre-production.
Mr. Lustbader is a graduate of Columbia College, with a degree in Sociology. Before turning to writing full time, he enjoyed highly successful careers in the New York City public school system, where he holds licenses in both elementary and early childhood education, and in the music business. He is a second-level Reiki master.

Full Series List in Order

Bravo Shaw / A Testament Novel

1 - The Testament (Sep-2007)
2 - The Fallen (May-2017)
3 - Four Dominions (Jul-2018)
4 - The Sum of All Shadows (Jul-2019)

China Maroc

1 - Jian (Jul-1985)
2 - Shan (Dec-1986)

Evan Ryder

1 - The Nemesis Manifesto (Jul-2020)
2 - The Kobalt Dossier (Jun-2021)
3 - Omega Rules (May-2022)
4 - The Quantum Solution (May-2023)

A Jack McClure Novel

1 - First Daughter (Aug-2008)
2 - Last Snow (Feb-2010)
3 - Blood Trust (May-2011)
4 - Father Night (Sep-2012)
5 - Beloved Enemy (Sep-2013)

Ludlum's Bourne

1 - The Bourne Legacy (Jul-2004)
2 - The Bourne Betrayal (Jun-2007)
3 - The Bourne Sanction (Aug-2008)
4 - The Bourne Deception (Jun-2009)
5 - The Bourne Objective (Jun-2010)
6 - The Bourne Dominion (Jul-2011)
7 - The Bourne Imperative (Jun-2012)
8 - The Bourne Retribution (Dec-2013)
9 - The Bourne Ascendancy (Jun-2014)
10 - The Bourne Enigma (Jun-2016)
11 - The Bourne Initiative (Jun-2017)

A Nicholas Linnear Novel

1 - The Ninja (1980)
2 - The Miko (1984)
3 - White Ninja (Jun-1990)
4 - The Kaisho (Jul-1994)
5 - Floating City (Aug-1994)
6 - Second Skin (Jan-1996)
7 - The Death and Life of Nicholas Linnear (Nov-2014)
8 - The Oligarch's Daughter (Feb-2016)

The Pearl Saga

1 - The Ring of Five Dragons (May-2001)
2 - The Veil of a Thousand Tears (Jul-2002)
3 - Mistress of the Pearl (Mar-2004)

Sunset Warrior Sequence

1 - The Sunset Warrior (1977)
2 - Shallows of Night (1978)
3 - Dai-San (Oct-1978)
4 - Beneath an Opal Moon (Nov-1980)
5 - Dragons on the Sea of Night (Aug-2014)

Multi-Author Series List

DC Comics: Batman

Batman: The Last Angel (Dec-1999)

Famous Characters: Batman

Batman: The Last Angel (Dec-1999)

Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne

4 - The Bourne Legacy (Jul-2004)
5 - The Bourne Betrayal (Jun-2007)
6 - The Bourne Sanction (Aug-2008)
7 - The Bourne Deception (Jun-2009)
8 - The Bourne Objective (Jun-2010)
9 - The Bourne Dominion (Jul-2011)
10 - The Bourne Imperative (Jun-2012)
11 - The Bourne Retribution (Dec-2013)
12 - The Bourne Ascendancy (Jun-2014)
13 - The Bourne Enigma (Jun-2016)
14 - The Bourne Initiative (Jun-2017)

Book List in Order: 53 titles



  • THE DOLMAN A being all nightmare, it prepares the end of all creation, while mankind cowers in fetid cities under a frozen world. Then from the bowels of the earth a warrior comes, baptized in blood, skilled in the dread language of swords......



  • THE DOLMAN HOWLS And when it howls it howls for Man. The universe itself trembles at the sound. But across the frozen seas and through the forgotten cities a warrior strides, seeking to feast his blade on the flesh of evil indescribable......



  • THE DOLMAN COMES The Beast unimaginable, bearing the final horror: annihilation. The time of Man has ended. But also comes the Sunset Warrior. The table for the awful feast is set, the ultimate battle about to begin......



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    "Totally absorbing...as gripping a tale of hatred and revenge as you will read...It is superb."
    NEWS RECORD
    This is the story of Nicholas Linnear, half-Caucasian, half-Oriental, a man caught between East and West, between the sexual passions of...



  • The death of a friend is avenged, a princess is rescued and an evil sorceress defeated......



  • Diana Whitney is on the verge of winning an Oscar for her role in a controversial terror film. Suddenly she finds her private life invaded by a nightmare that matches the script . . .


    From the Paperback edition....



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    "Swiftly paced and fascinating...An intricately designed puzzle."
    CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
    She is a sorceress--indescribably beautiful, overpoweringly sensual--who possesess incomprehensible powers. She is also a murderess who plans to use her power t...



  • "Chilling, brutal, and satisfying...The reader becomes deeply involved."
    THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE
    The sudden death of a major presidential contender in the arms of his beautiful mistress sends his best friend, Tracy Richter, on an epic journey of ...



  • From the New York Timesâ€"bestselling author of The Ninja comes the first “authentic and engrossing” thriller in the series featuring Jake Maroc (Los Angeles Times).   Jake Maroc, a top agent for the secret US government agency known as the ...






  • A novel of suspense and mystical adventure in China from the New York Timesâ€"bestselling author of Jian and the Nicholas Linnear series.   A martial arts expert and former agent of the top secret US government agency known as the Quarry, Jake M...



  • "[A] rewarding thriller...It contains enough twists and genuine surprises to keep the reader racing toward the satisfying final pages."
    THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
    Although American painter Michael Doss has been schooled in the ancient ways ...



  • The search for a mysterious artifact leads to a trek across the globe in this thriller from the New York Timesâ€"bestselling author of the Bourne novels.   In the French countryside, a man is brutally murdered. In a Connecticut church, a priest ...



  • A New York Times bestseller by the author of The Ninja: An American uses his martial arts expertise to track a serial killer preying on the women of Tokyo.   A sadist haunts the back alleys and sex clubs of Tokyo, picking up women, horrifically ...



  • In Tokyo, Honno Kansei takes part in a ritual death that will turn her world upside down....In Washington, D.C., Tori Nunn, a former U.S. intelligence agent, hurtles into the search for the source of a new brand of killer cocaine....In Moscow, Irina ...



  • From New York Times bestselling author Eric Lustbader, the suspense mastermind behind the smash bestsellers featuring Robert Ludlum’sâ"˘ Jason Bourne, comes a blockbuster thriller of one man’s debt of honor -- and his ultimate destiny.Years ago, ...



  • Deep within the Vietnamese jungle lies Floating City, a secret empire run on riches and murder. At its heart is Rock, an American Vietnam vet--a killing machine raised on war and rock-and-roll. Ruthless and bloodthirsty, he rules like a god supreme o...



  • "There are plots within plots, circles within circles....Lustbader fans will lap it up."
    ATLANTA JOURNAL & CONSTITUTION
    In New York City, a chain of brutal murders begins....In Washington, a plot conceived at the highest levels of American gove...



  • The suspense master behind Robert Ludlum’sâ"˘ Jason Bourne thrillers, New York Times bestselling author Eric Lustbader brings a riveting epic adventure to an explosive conclusion, as Nicholas Linnear takes on his most formidable enemy.After the apo...



  • Former New York City police officer Lew Croaker faces the most daunting choice of his life--whether to kill a man to provide his niece with the kidney she desperately needs, or hunt down the man behind the evil scheme. Reprint....







  • The Kundalan people have suffered for a century under the viciously oppressive technologically-superior V'ornn invaders. In the resulting crisis of faith--why hasn't their goddess Miina saved them?--Kundalan religion has fallen under the control of e...



  • From the marbled precincts of New York's uptown museum scene to the galleries and lofts of Soho to a Mafia mansion on the coast of Long Island, Lustbader's hotly paced novella sweeps Tess Chase - a no-nonsense woman with a connoisseur's taste for mar...



  • Eric Van Lustbader returns to his world of Kundala to unearth new riches of wonder and excitement in this second volume of The Pearl Saga. With the help of her friends, Riane, the prophesied redeemer known as the Dar Sala-at, saved Kundala from an...



  • Kundala is Miina's world, created by that Goddess with the help of the dragons. But Miina is missing, and her people have been enslaved by the alien V'ornn. Now a savior has come, the Dar Sala-at, a messiah promised by prophecy yet unlike anyone's ex...



  • Once, Jason Bourne was notorious in the clandestine world of covert-ops as one of the CIA's most expert international killers for hire. Out of the ashes of his violent past he's emerged today as a Georgetown professor, living a quiet life, retired fr...



  • PREPARE TO BE THRILLED AS YOU'VE NEVER BEEN BEFORE. THRILLER is the first collection of pure thriller stories ever published. Offering up heart-pumping tales of suspense in all its guises are thirty-two of the most critically acclaimed and award-w...



  • Jason Bourne takes a mission to rescue his only friend in the CIA, Martin Lindros, who disappeared in Africa while tracking shipments of yellowcake uranium. Once safely back in America, Lindros persuades Bourne to help track the money trail of terror...



  • The new international thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bourne LegacyBraverman Shaw-"Bravo" to his friends-always knew his father had secrets. But not until Dexter Shaw dies in a mysterious explosion does Bravo discover the e...



  • Jason Bourne returns to Georgetown University and the world of his alter ego, David Webb. But after so many adrenaline-soaked years of risking his life, Bourne finds himself chafing under the quiet life of a linguistics professor. Aware of his frustr...






  • Jack McClure has had a troubled life. His dyslexia always made him feel like an outsider. He escaped from an abusive home as a teenager, living by his wits on the streets of Washington, D.C. It wasn't until he realized that dyslexia gave him a unique...



  • After Bourne is ambushed and nearly killed while in Indonesia, he fakes his death to take on a new identity and mission- to find out who is trying to assassinate him. In the process, Bourne begins to question who he really is and what he would become...



  • New York Times bestselling sensation Eric Van Lustbader created the legendary Nicholas Linnear of The Ninja and brought Jason Bourne into the twenty-first century. Last year, in First Daughter, Lustbader introduced street-smart ATF agent Jack McClure...



  • Facing down mercenaries in Africa, Jason Bourne witnesses the death of an art dealer named Tracy Atherton. Her killing dredges up snatches of Bourne's impaired memory, in particular the murder of a young woman on Bali who entrusted him with a strange...



  • It was once said that you must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible . . . Alli Carson has been through her own personal hell. With her father, the President of the United States, recently dead and her mother in a coma from a terr...



  • Jason Bourne is searching for an elusive cadre of terrorists planning to destroy America's most strategic natural resources-and needs the help of his longtime friend, General Boris Karpov. Karpov, the newly appointed head of Russia's most feared spy ...



  • The man Jason Bourne fishes out of the freezing sea is near death, half-drowned and bleeding profusely from a gunshot wound. He awakens with no memory of who he is or why he was shot-and Bourne is eerily reminded of his own amnesia. Then Bourne disco...



  • “An eye for an eye will make the world go blind.” -- Gandhi A tidal wave of reform is sweeping across the Middle East. Many lurk in the shadows, eager to seize power--giants of a vast criminal underworld, fueled by revenge and vengeance. Their...



  • In the stunning follow up to "Father Night," Jack McClure faces a choice: help the woman he loves, or destroy her as the enemy she is. Shortly after McClure leaves a late night meeting with Dennis Paull, the Secretary of Homeland Security, Paull i...



  • Jason Bourne is one of the most popular and compelling characters in modern fiction. Originally created by bestselling author Robert Ludlum, now New York Times bestselling writer Eric Van Lustbader carries on Ludlum's legacy with a new novel about th...






  • Jason Bourne has been hired to protect a high-level government minister at a political summit meeting in Qatar, shielding him from any assassination attempts. Suddenly, armed gunmen storm the room, killing everyone but Bourne. Their target, however, ...



  • In the continuation of the epic Sunset Warrior fantasy series, a man-god rises once more to confront a fearsome and unstoppable evil in a savage world where nothing is as it seems Once he was but a man named Ronin. Trained as a swordsman, endowed wi...



  • A new story featuring the legendary modern-day ninja, from a #1 New York Times–bestselling author. This was to be one of the greatest nights of Nicholas Linnear’s life—a crowning achievement. After taking over his family’s com...



  • Nicholas Linnear, hero of New York Timesâ€"bestseller The Ninja, returns in an all-new adventure of intrigue, deceit, and death Returning to Tokyo after many years, Nicholas Linnear -- the ninja -- must make a deal with the devil if he is to maintain...



  • On the eve of Russian general Boris Karpov's wedding, Jason Bourne receives an enigmatic message from his old friend and fellow spymaster. In Moscow, what should be a joyous occasion turns bloody and lethal. Now Bourne is the only one who can deciphe...



  • Red Rover is broken, finished, dead. The blackest of black ops teams is betrayed on its top-priority mission to capture and interrogate a mysterious Saudi terrorist. One of their own is killed, the remaining two barely get home alive. Then without wa...



  • The End of Days has been predicted for the last two thousand years. Now, without warning, it is upon us. In a hidden cave in the mountains of Lebanon, a man makes a fateful discovery. He will bring what has been forbidden for thousands of years out o...



  • Jason Bourne returns in this stunning new thriller from Eric Van Lustbader, continuing Robert Ludlum's classic series. General Boris Karpov, head of the feared Russian FSB, is dead. But Karpov has reached out from the grave with an unstoppable cyb...



  • Four Dominions is a new, pulse-pounding thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of the Jason Bourne series and The Testament The End of Days has been predicted for the last two thousand years, but now it is upon us. Emma and Bravo S...



  • The Final Battle is here. For millennia, Lucifer―the Sum of All Shadows―has been rebuilding his influence. At long last, he is ready to enact his ultimate revenge against Heaven. To do that, he must first annihilate the world and its inhabitan...






  • Russian meddling, American fragmentation, and global politics collide in this action-packed, international thriller. In The Nemesis Manifesto, New York Times bestselling author Eric Van Lustbader delivers an epic and harrowing adventure of the pre...



  • Evan Ryder is back in The Kobalt Dossier, the stunning follow-up to The Nemesis Manifesto from New York Times bestselling author Eric Van Lustbader. After thwarting the violent, international, fascist syndicate known as Nemesis, Evan Ryder return...



  • Evan Ryder returns to uncover an international conspiracy against American democracy in a white-knuckle new thriller by New York Times bestselling author, Eric Van Lustbader.Evan Ryder was once a field agent for a black-ops arm of the Department of D...



  • Evan Ryder is back, and in deadly peril, in The Quantum Solution, the fourth heart-stopping installment of this enthralling series by master thriller writer and New York Times bestselling author Eric Van Lustbader.Evan Ryder is an extraordinary intel...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Eric Van Lustbader / Eric Lustbader has published 53 books.

Eric Van Lustbader / Eric Lustbader does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Quantum Solution, was published in May 2023.

The first book by Eric Van Lustbader / Eric Lustbader, The Sunset Warrior, was published in January 1977.

Yes. Eric Van Lustbader / Eric Lustbader has 8 series.