Barry Eisler

With his constant blog postings and promise of more novels in each of his highly successful series of books, there seems to be no stopping Barry Eisler. Even if he goes years without publishing a book, which is highly unlikely, readers will still be able to find him all across the Internet while he informs the world of his opinions on current events.

The best place to start is the John Rain series, the earliest of Barry Eisler's multi-book series: it opens with Rain Fall / A Clean Kill in Tokyo (2003) and runs to 12 books across 2003–2021, ending with The Chaos Kind (2021). Barry Eisler's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Barry Eisler has 26 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2003 and 2025. 18 of them belong to 3 named series — the largest being the John Rain series with 12 books — and 8 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Barry Eisler's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are John Rain (2003–2021, 12 books), Ben Treven (2009–2010, 2 books) and Livia Lone (2016–2019, 4 books).

This guide splits Barry Eisler's 26 books into 3 named series and 8 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: John Rain (12 books, 2003–2021); Livia Lone (4 books, 2016–2019); Ben Treven (2 books, 2009–2010).