Livia Lone Books in Order
Part ofBarry Eisler Books in OrderExplore the Livia Lone series by Barry Eisler in order, with book summaries, series background, and guidance on where to start these dark crime thrillers.
Last updated: December 23, 2025
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Publication Order
4 books
The Killer Collective
by Barry Eisler
2019
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.
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All the Devils
by Barry Eisler
2019
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.
The Night Trade
by Barry Eisler
2018
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.
Livia Lone
by Barry Eisler
2016
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.
Series background & context
The Livia Lone books center on a woman who has survived the worst kinds of violence and decided to turn her scars into a weapon. As a child in Thailand, Livia and her younger sister Nason were sold by their parents to traffickers. The journey that follows fractures their lives and leaves Livia alone in the United States, carrying a new name and a past she can barely face.
By the time readers meet her in Livia Lone, she is a Seattle sex crimes detective. Officially she builds cases, collects evidence, and tries to put predators behind bars. Unofficially, when the system fails, she is willing to deliver punishment herself. The novel moves between her present day investigations and the earlier years of abuse, captivity, and adaptation that turned her into someone who understands predators from the inside.
The Night Trade gives Livia a chance to go back to the place where much of her trauma began. Assigned to a government anti trafficking task force, she returns to Thailand to track Rithisak Sorm, a man tied to her own history and to a wider network of child exploitation. There she crosses paths with Dox, a talkative Marine sniper with his own reasons for wanting Sorm dead. Their partnership is uneasy but effective, and together they discover that Sorm is protected by powerful interests far beyond the local underworld.
In All the Devils, the danger shifts closer to home. Homeland Security agent B. D. Little asks Livia to help on a cold case involving his missing daughter and several other vanished girls. The trail leads to two Special Forces veterans who are also serial rapists, and to a vice president willing to destroy anything that threatens his son. The book peels back layers of political protection while Livia pushes past legal boundaries in pursuit of her own idea of justice.
Livia’s world intersects with John Rain’s circle in crossover novels such as The Killer Collective and The Chaos Kind, where she works alongside Rain, Dox, Delilah, and others against conspiracies involving traffickers, financiers, and national security officials. These stories place her intensely personal vendetta against a much larger backdrop of systemic abuse.
The tone of the Livia Lone series is darker than most crime fiction, with frank depictions of trafficking, sexual violence, and the long aftermath of trauma. At the same time, the books are grounded in Livia’s stubborn loyalty, her complicated relationships, and her refusal to see herself or other survivors as only victims. Readers who can handle the subject matter will find a character driven mix of procedural detail, vigilante thriller, and emotional reckoning.
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