Books by Barry Eisler and Complete Book Reviews
Barry Eisler, Author . Putnam $24.95 (305p) ISBN 978-0-399-14910-8
Set in a memorable noir version of Tokyo (jazz clubs, whiskey bars, "love hotels"), Eisler's rich and atmospheric debut thriller winds its way around the city's extensive rail system and its upscale Western boutiques—Mulberry,
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Barry Eisler, Author . Putnam $24.95 (342p) ISBN 978-0-399-15052-4
Rain Fall
(2002), Eisler's first book about Japanese-American Vietnam vet John Rain, a hired assassin for government agencies in Tokyo and Washington, worked so well that the author wisely decided to keep all the elements intact in this...
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Barry Eisler, Author . Putnam $24.95 (341p) ISBN 978-0-399-15192-7
Eisler adds a fine new entry to his standout series starring freelance assassin John Rain, who tracks quarry across the Asian capitals of the Pacific Rim. In the third installment (following last year's Hard Rain
), Rain is lured out of self-impo
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Barry Eisler, Author . Putnam $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-15284-9
At the start of Eisler's taut and compelling fourth thriller to feature John Rain (after 2004's Rain Storm
), the freelance assassin's latest employer, Israeli intelligence, has sent him and his longtime associate, Dox, to Manila to kill
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Barry Eisler, Author . Putnam $24.95 (338p) ISBN 978-0-399-15359-4
Japanese-American assassin John Rain would like to get out of the killing business in his fifth action-filled outing (after 2005's Killing Rain
), see the son he's only just learned of and perhaps try to reconnect with Midori, the child's
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Barry Eisler, Author . Putnam $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-399-15426-3
In Eisler’s predictable sixth thriller to star half Japanese, half American assassin John Rain (after 2006’s The Last Assassin), Rain’s longtime rival, rogue CIA agent Jim Hilger, kidnaps Rain’s sniper friend Dox and...
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Barry Eisler, Author . Ballantine $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-345-50508-8
Eisler fans may miss the sleek, moody tone that distinguished his John Rain thrillers (Requiem for an Assassin
, etc.) in this highly readable first in a new series introducing another assassin hero. Ben Treven, who's been assigned to Turkey in
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Barry Eisler, Ballantine, $25 (368p) ISBN 978-0-345-50510-1
Eisler’s rock-solid sequel to Fault Line finds black ops spy/assassin Ben Treven dealing with anger management problems that have landed him in a grim Filipino jail. To the rescue is his old boss, Col. Scott “Hort” Horton, chief of Ben’s secret unit,
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Barry Eisler. Thomas & Mercer (Amazon, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (322p) ISBN 9781612181554
Living in quiet semi-retirement in Tokyo, John Rain tries to avoid his old life as an assassin until a group of men approaches him with an offer difficult to refuse. Colonel Scott Horton wants the group to assassinate three targets who are...
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Barry Eisler. Amazon/Thomas & Mercer, $24.95 (448p) ISBN 978-1-5039-4961-4
In this intricately plotted thriller from bestseller Eisler (Graveyard of Memories), NSA analyst Evelyn Gallagher warns Theodore Anders, the NSA director, that her worldwide spy system has tagged a senior NSA official meeting in Istanbul with an...
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Barry Eisler. Thomas & Mercer, $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-5039-3966-0
Livia Lone, who works for the sex crimes division of the Seattle PD, uses herself as bait to entice, entrap, and then punish the male vermin who sexually assault young women, as an unfortunate gang biker learns in the first chapter of this exciting...
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Barry Eisler, Author, Michael McConnohie, Read by , read by Michael McConnohie. Listen & Live Audio $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59316-080-7
Japanese-American assassin John Rain is growing tired of the killing game and wants to find a way out. When he tries to reconnect with Midori, the mother of the child he's just learned he had, he runs afoul of the Yakuza, who hope to use Rain'
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Barry Eisler. Thomas & Mercer, $24.95 (416p) ISBN 978-1-5039-0426-2
In this crackling-good thriller from bestseller Eisler (The Night Trade), Seattle PD sex crimes detective Livia Lone, assassin John Rain, and former Marine sniper Dox form a testy alliance to combat a vile conspiracy involving corrupt and toxic...
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Barry Eisler. Thomas & Mercer, $24.95 (480p) ISBN 978-1-5420-0561-6
Bestseller Eisler’s explosive sequel to 2019’s The Killer Collective reunites the formidable team of former Marine sniper Dox; Seattle PD sex crimes detective Livia Lone; freelance assassin John Rain; Rain’s ex-Mossad agent girlfriend, Delilah; and...
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Barry Eisler. Thomas & Mercer, $28.99 (380p) ISBN 978-1-5420-0565-4
Last seen in 2021’s The Chaos Kind, former Marine sniper Dox, a supporting character in bestseller Eisler’s John Rain and Livia Lone franchises, takes center stage in this exciting series launch. In 1991, Dox has just returned from an undercover...
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