Eric Van Lustbader Books in Order

Centuries after the surface world froze, swordsman Ronin lives in the underground Freehold, where neutrality is impossible. When war closes in, he is pushed toward a quest that could save what remains of humanity.

Ronin takes to the sea in search of a mythical island whose secrets might save the world. Instead he finds an army of death rising and an evil force that could end everything.

Escaping the Freehold, Ronin reaches the frozen surface with Borros the Magic Man and discovers a dazzling port city by the sea. But even in Sha'angh'sei, monsters and old enemies make survival a daily fight.

Moichi Annai-Nin plans to head home, but murders in Sha'angh'sei pull him into a rescue and revenge mission with the warrior Chiisai. Their journey leads toward a captive princess and a sorceress who means to loose nightmares on the world.

Nicholas Linnear thought his life in Japan was behind him until a murder in New York bears the unmistakable mark of a ninja. As the bodies mount, he is forced back into the violent world that trained him.

Daina Whitney is headed for Hollywood stardom, but ambition and grief keep tugging her in opposite directions. As she hunts justice for her murdered best friend, the glamour around her starts to look far more dangerous.

After a presidential contender is murdered, Tracy Richter follows the trail into the Cambodian nightmare that shaped the killer known as Black Heart. The farther he goes, the more personal and deadly the conspiracy becomes.

When his best friend dies under suspicious circumstances, Nicholas Linnear plots a careful revenge that carries him to Tokyo. There he meets a deadly miko and finds himself trapped between corporate intrigue, espionage, and survival.

Jake Maroc, a man of martial and philosophical gifts, is drawn into a deadly contest built around four jade pieces and a hidden strategy. As Hong Kong and the wider world become the prize, even knowing who Jake truly is becomes part of the mystery.

Jake Maroc is sent toward a sacred plateau in the heart of Asia, where mysticism and geopolitics collide. What begins as a mission to help shape China's future turns into a test of power, destiny, and survival.

Two murdered brothers leave behind a hunt for the Prey Dauw, three legendary weapons said to confer power over Indochina and its opium trade. Chris Haye and Steve Guarda plunge into a brutal chase against a killer who wants them dead too.

Painter Michael Doss has tried to live quietly, despite the warrior training in his past. His father's death shatters that calm and sends him after a Japanese cabal, and the assassin called Zero, before their plans trigger global chaos.

A savage killer is stalking Tokyo's women and leaving a taunt in blood. Nicholas Linnear may be the only man who can stop him, if illness and fear do not break him first.

Three formidable women in Tokyo, Washington, and Moscow set off a chain reaction that touches Yakuza operators, arms brokers, spies, and drug runners. Separate lives become one deadly international game.

A string of New York murders, a Washington plot against Japan, and a Tokyo struggle for the Black Blade Society converge in this sprawling thriller. The deeper the conspiracy runs, the harder it becomes to tell allies from enemies.

A promise to his father forces Nicholas Linnear to protect Mikio Okami, the boss of bosses in the Yakuza, from a mysterious assassin. To keep that vow, he must enter a world of madness, mysticism, and deadly knowledge.

Nicholas Linnear heads into the Vietnamese jungle to confront Floating City, a secret empire of murder ruled by the brutal Rock. To destroy it, he must face hard truths about the Yakuza and the woman he has never stopped loving.

After the destruction of Floating City, Nicholas Linnear's old enemy prepares one last assault. With Lew Croaker and Vesper Arkham at his side, Linnear heads toward a final reckoning that could cost him everything.

In Miami, Lew Croaker is pulled into a nightmare of magic, organ trafficking, and family desperation when his niece needs a kidney transplant. To save her, he may have to cross a line he cannot uncross.

Ronin has become Dai-San, a feared and revered power in his own right. But defeated enemies are stirring again, and even the Sunset Warrior may not be strong enough to stop Chaos from returning.

Tess Chase goes after a lost Raphael and lands in a dangerous tangle of galleries, organized crime, and family rivalry. Finding the painting is hard enough. Figuring out who she can trust may be impossible.

Detective Jon Christopher has spent eighteen months failing to catch a serial murderer called the Pale Saint. When the killer takes his best friend, Christopher and a brilliant genetic engineer make a desperate, deeply unsettling plan to strike back.

On occupied Kundala, the alien V'ornn and their Gyrgon masters hunt the lost Pearl and the Ring that can open the sacred Storehouse. Young Annon Ashera escapes a massacre and begins to learn he may be central to Kundala's freedom.

Riane has survived by becoming one with Annon Ashera, fulfilling prophecy but tearing a hole in the Abyss. With daemons loose and Giyan possessed, the only hope may be the legendary Veil of a Thousand Tears.

Kundala's fate now rests with the Dar Sala-at, the merged being formed from Riane and Annon. As old enemies gather and dragon-bound powers stir, the war between science, sorcery, and empire turns even more dangerous.

Living quietly as David Webb, Bourne barely survives an assassination attempt and finds himself framed for murders close to him. Hunted by the CIA, he must uncover the terrorist plot that has turned his own past into a weapon.

After his father's mysterious death, Bravo Shaw learns he was part of a secret order guarding explosive ancient Christian documents. With rival forces closing in, Bravo must follow a trail of clues before the past is weaponized.

When Bourne's last true friend disappears in Ethiopia while tracking nuclear material, he goes after him against every warning. The rescue mission pulls him into a terror network that expects Bourne to help destroy America.

Jack McClure is asked to find Alli Carson, kidnapped daughter of the president-elect and former best friend of his dead daughter. The case becomes a personal reckoning and a chase through a master manipulator's design.

Bored with academic life, Bourne agrees to look into a murdered student and discovers a secret extremist sect with plans for an attack. The trail leads through Europe and straight toward one of his deadliest missions.

After an ambush in Indonesia, Bourne fakes his own death to hunt the people trying to kill him. His search collides with an investigation into a downed airliner, and the clock starts ticking toward world war.

When a U.S. senator dies on Capri, Jack McClure is sent from Moscow across Eastern Europe to learn why. With Alli Carson and rogue FSB agent Annika Dementieva close to the fire, he uncovers corruption at the highest levels.

A dying art dealer and a mysterious ring drag Bourne back toward a buried piece of his past. His search leads to Leonid Arkadin, another product of Treadstone, and a rival every bit as dangerous as Bourne himself.

Alli Carson is training at the Fearington Institute when she becomes the prime suspect in a murder. Jack McClure steps in and finds a case that reaches into trafficking, terrorism, and the hidden machinery of Washington power.

Bourne hunts terrorists planning to cripple America's strategic resources, but the mission comes with a brutal catch. His old friend Boris Karpov has been ordered to find him and kill him.

In Moscow, Jack and Annika are pulled into a violent struggle over a dying crime empire, while Alli Carson is stalked back home by someone who knows her past too well. Separate investigations close in on a legend of enduring evil.

Bourne pulls an amnesiac stranger from the sea and stumbles into a conspiracy tied to Mossad, Treadstone, and a legendary assassin. To survive, he must learn who the injured man is before powerful enemies get there first.

Homeland Security Secretary Dennis Paull dies just after meeting Jack McClure, and suddenly Jack is the man everyone wants to blame. Hunted by the CIA and FBI, he goes after a mole and the Syrian while old love and old pain resurface.

Bourne agrees to investigate a deadly alliance involving a Chinese power broker and a Mexican drug lord, but he has private reasons for taking the job. This time the mission is driven as much by grief and revenge as duty.

Hired to impersonate a government minister at a summit in Qatar, Bourne walks into a massacre meant for him. Kidnapped by a notorious terrorist, he must survive captivity and save Soraya Moore before the larger plot closes in.

Nicholas Linnear wakes drugged and buried alive on the eve of a business deal worth billions. Escaping is only the first problem. He still has to find out who wanted him dead and why.

A black-ops team called Red Rover is betrayed during a mission and left shattered. Greg Whitman, Felix Orteño, and arms expert Charlize Daou try to uncover the truth before the forces behind the operation erase them too.

On the eve of Boris Karpov's wedding, Bourne receives a cryptic warning that turns the celebration into bloodshed. With just four days, he must decode the message, hunt an arms dealer, and stop a catastrophe from becoming war.

Back in Tokyo, Nicholas Linnear needs a Russian oligarch's money to keep control of his new venture. The price is an act of revenge, and the bait is hidden information about Linnear's own past.

After Boris Karpov's death, a cyberweapon built to steal America's nuclear launch codes is set loose. Branded a traitor and badly wounded, Bourne must join forces with an enemy to stop a nightmare he may be blamed for.

Max Brandt joins the Agency after the death of his wife leaves him with little interest in living. His first assignment tests not just his nerve, but what secrecy and lies can do to a grieving man.

Bravo and Emma Shaw have recovered the Testament of Lucifer, but the Fallen are already awake and spreading corruption. As ancient powers rise, the siblings must fight a threat that reaches into every level of the world.

A hidden discovery in Lebanon brings the Testament of Lucifer into the light and puts humanity in danger. Bravo Shaw, his sister Emma, and their allies race to stop a darkness that is no longer merely historical.

In this short crossover thriller, Bravo Shaw joins forces with Ali Reynolds after a hunter is found with his throat slit. Their search leads toward a rumored holy relic and the people willing to kill for it.

Lucifer is ready to move openly, and Bravo and Emma Shaw are running out of time. To stop him, they must chase King Solomon's lost alchemical gold across the world and beyond ordinary time itself.

Evan Ryder is a black-ops field agent who discovers that her own side may be compromised. As fellow operatives are picked off, she follows the trail of Nemesis, a network determined to tear American democracy apart.

Returning from her battle with Nemesis, Evan Ryder finds her old unit gone and her sister's children missing. The search forces her and Ben Butler into an uneasy partnership against enemies who know far too much about her past.

Now working in the orbit of a quantum-tech company, Evan Ryder hunts Omega, a cultlike conspiracy attacking democracy itself. A murdered agent in Vienna kicks off a chase through a world of ideology, espionage, and private power.

Evan Ryder is now working with Parachute when a Russian scientist and the U.S. defense secretary die of sudden brain damage. The pattern points to a new kind of quantum war, and Evan must stop it before Washington and Moscow tip into catastrophe.

A breakthrough communications system threatens to make modern encryption useless and hand terrible power to whoever controls it. Evan Ryder races after the assassin known as White Wolf, knowing the future may depend on reaching her first.