Barry Eisler Books in Order

Newly elected congresswoman Valeria Velez arrives in Washington determined to fight militarism and serve her district. When a fugitive hacker exposes a covert Pentagon program linking artificial intelligence to nuclear weapons, she must decide how much of herself to trade to challenge it.

In 1991, restless ex Marine sniper Dox leaves small town Texas for a lucrative CIA backed assignment in East Timor. Tasked with shadowing idealistic doctor Isobel Amaral, he must choose between his mission, his family’s needs, and a dangerous new love.

Assistant US attorney Alondra Diaz pursues billionaire predator Andrew Schrader, unaware he holds kompromat on powerful officials. As killers close in, Dox, Larison, Livia Lone, John Rain, and Delilah join forces to keep her alive and weaponize Schrader’s damning videos.

When Seattle sex crimes detective Livia Lone survives a hit linked to an international child exploitation ring, she turns to sniper Dox for help. Retired assassin John Rain and a team of black ops veterans join them to dismantle a conspiracy inside government.

An investigation into an online child pornography ring nearly gets Seattle detective Livia Lone killed, convincing her the FBI may be compromised. She enlists Dox, John Rain, Delilah, Ben Treven, and Larison to expose the ring’s protectors in Washington and beyond.

Homeland Security agent B. D. Little asks Livia Lone to help find two sadistic serial rapists tied to a decade of missing girls, one of them the vice president’s son. As powerful men close ranks, Livia pursues justice on her own unforgiving terms.

Given a spot on an international anti trafficking task force, Livia Lone returns to Thailand to hunt Rithisak Sorm, the man behind her childhood abuse. A botched nightclub raid forces her into an uneasy alliance with sniper Dox against a far reaching conspiracy.

Returning to Tokyo in 1982 after mercenary work abroad, John Rain finds the contract killing world dominated by Victor, a sadistic rival who gives him a choice: murder a government minister or be eliminated, a job complicated by the minister’s alluring wife.

NSA director Theodore Anders runs a secret program called God’s Eye that scoops up global communications. When analyst Evelyn Gallagher links the system to suspicious deaths of journalists, she and her deaf son Dash become targets for the agency’s most lethal enforcers.

Seattle sex crimes detective Livia Lone was sold from Thailand as a child and brutalized by traffickers and an adoptive father. Now she hunts predators by day and, when the system fails, by night, chasing a new lead that might finally reveal her sister’s fate.

In 1972 Tokyo, a young John Rain works as a CIA bagman until a routine cash drop explodes into violence and earns him a yakuza death sentence. To survive, he accepts a high risk assassination that threatens the woman he has come to love.

Mossad operative Delilah is contracted by MI6 to infiltrate a London based terror cell plotting poison gas attacks on civilians. Her way in is a brilliant, devoted woman who becomes both target and temptation, blurring the line between asset and lover.

Former Marine sniper Dox accepts a long range job in Cambodia that should be simple: one target, one shot. Instead he stumbles into a nest of traffickers and off the books intelligence games, and a routine assignment turns into a very personal vendetta.

On the run and off the grid, assassin Daniel Larison hides in a quiet Northern California town near the Lost Coast. When three twisted locals decide he looks like easy prey, they trigger a swift, merciless night of payback they never imagined.

Colonel Scott Horton recruits John Rain, Dox, Ben Treven, and Daniel Larison for a covert mission to kill three powerful Americans tied to an alleged coup. As the bodies fall, the four operators realize they are pawns in a much larger false flag plot.

This sharp political essay uses stories, marketing examples, and fight metaphors to explain why modern Democrats struggle to sell their ideas. Eisler breaks down framing, language, and persuasion tactics to help anyone communicate more clearly and land their punches.

Over a romantic dinner on the Île Saint Louis, John Rain spots a surveillance team closing in on Mossad operative Delilah. A quiet night in Paris turns into a tight, violent test of trust where business and love collide in the worst possible way.

This conversational book captures Barry Eisler and fellow novelist J. A. Konrath talking through the upheaval in publishing, from ebooks and self publishing to contracts, royalties, and control, offering practical, opinionated insight for writers navigating a changing industry.

Black ops soldier Ben Treven rots in a Manila jail after a bar fight turns deadly until his former commander offers freedom for a price: find Daniel Larison, a rogue teammate using stolen CIA torture tapes to blackmail the US government.

Silicon Valley lawyer Alex Treven thinks his future rests on a breakthrough encryption deal until the inventor and a patent examiner are murdered. Desperate, he calls his estranged brother, covert soldier Ben Treven, drawing them and colleague Sarah into a lethal conspiracy.

Living under a new identity in Paris with Delilah, John Rain thinks he is nearly out of the life. Then rogue CIA operator Jim Hilger kidnaps Dox and blackmails Rain into three assassinations, sending him across the globe and into a trap he can barely escape.

When John Rain learns that former lover Midori is secretly raising their son in New York, he sees a chance at redemption. His sudden appearance draws deadly attention, forcing Rain, Dox, Tatsu, and Delilah into a brutal campaign against old enemies.

Nearly killed on a job in Hong Kong, John Rain winds up working for Mossad and sent to Manila with sniper Dox to eliminate a target. When Rain’s conscience complicates the hit, he discovers that his new employers may want him dead next.

After disappearing to Brazil, John Rain is dragged back to work by the CIA and ordered to take out a ruthless arms dealer in Southeast Asia. A rival assassin, a dangerous lover, and a suspected setup turn the mission into a deadly game of survival.

John Rain is hiding in Japan, trying to leave the killing business behind, when a relentless cop forces him to hunt Murakami, a vicious rival assassin. The job pulls Rain through underground fight clubs, hostess bars, and a covert war between yakuza and spies.

In Tokyo, half American, half Japanese assassin John Rain makes his hits look like natural deaths. When a job on a corrupt official draws him toward the man’s daughter, jazz pianist Midori Kawamura, Rain finds himself hunted by the CIA and yakuza.