A search for a pair of serial rapists leads Livia Lone down the darkest and most dangerous trail of her life in a pulse-pounding thriller by New York Times bestselling author Barry Eisler.Ten years ago, the daughter of Homeland Security Investigations agent B. D. Little vanished into thin air. So did seven other girls—the crimes all bearing the same signature characteristics.Now the … characteristics.
Now the disappearances have begun again. And Agent Little’s efforts to investigate are being blocked by forces far above his pay grade. Desperate, he turns to Seattle sex-crimes detective Livia Lone, the most obsessive hunter of predators Little knows.
Livia will need that obsessiveness, and a lot more. Because the two men Little is pursuing are fearsome. Both Special Forces veterans with a dozen tours in Iraq between them. Both sadists and serial rapists. And one, the congressman scion of the vice president of the United States—a man who will use all his power to protect his son’s secrets and further his own ambitions.
The conspirators have all the assets and all the angles. And every reason to believe they’ll evade justice, as they always have before.
They don’t understand that for Livia Lone, justice is only a guideline. Revenge is the rule.
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All The Devils by Barry Eisler
Livia Lone #3
When I met Livia Lone in The Killer Collective I knew that I had found a series I would love to follow for the foreseeable future. That book was perhaps book three in the Livia Lone series but also a book in two other series I had never heard of. When I saw this book up for review I knew I wanted to find out what Livia would be tackling next. Her focus is on sexual predators and putting them away, one way or another, and this book continues that theme.
When Livia is approached by someone that lost his daughter ten years before she wasn’t sure she wanted to help out but one favor she could do…and that favor drug her into a rather serious and deadly situation. It was definitely more deadly for the bad guys who tried to take her out than it was for Livia but deadly it was throughout the book.
There were two scum-bucket bad guys who were serial rapists that sometimes “disappeared” the women they preyed upon. One was in the public eye and the other his friend from the military. I have to say that these two men made me hope they would get their just desserts before the end of the book. They were truly warped and without compassion of any sort.
The search for who the rapists were was intense. The people called for information were high up the ladder sometimes and Livia was lucky to know them. I admired Livia’s strength, tenacity and will to do what she felt was right. I would definitely like to have her on my side if I were in trouble.
When I finished this book I was satisfied the story was told but was left eager to find out what Livia will be doing in the next book and whether or not her relationship with Carl will continue and take on more substance as time goes by.
This book flows. I was caught up in the beginning and kept engaged till the end. I could “see” what was happening and felt it was believable in all the important ways. At some point in time I need to find books one and two and read those as I have a feeling there is more about Livia’s early life that I should at some point read although I have a fairly good idea what her life was like from glimpses read in the two books read so far.
Did I like this book? Yes
Would I like to read more in this series? Without a doubt
Thank you to NetGalley and Thomas & Mercer for the ARC – This is my honest review.
5 Stars
This was a really great story. It is the fourth book in the Livia Lone series. It is about a pair of serial rapists/killers. Agent Little lost his daughter to them years ago as well as seven other girls now it is happening again and he need Livia to help him solve it before they go quite again and get away with it. The men they are looking for are well trained special force vererans that seem to be protected by the higher ups. Fast paced book with plenty of action really kept me reading and interested throughout. Really good.
I’ve been a big Barry Eisler fan for years. His John Rain is one of my favorite main characters in contemporary thrillers. But Livia Lone has been steadily gaining on ol’ John Rain in my list of favorites. I won’t re-hash her origin story, as that heavy tale is told in her earlier books (and I’ve already written about it in my reviews of them), but I’ll reiterate that she is one of the most complex, strong-yet-vulnerable characters I’ve read. And here we find her involved in another situation Eisler has put her into for stress testing. This is another taut, skillfully woven Barry Eisler thriller.
I haven’t read the other books in this series and maybe I should have. Maybe it would have been a five star review instead as there are some references I didn’t get. Besides that, the book was great and an enjoyable, engaging read. Hard to put down and it made me think about the story long after I finished the book.
This is Livia Lone #4, and perhaps the best of this series of thrillers. One caution, this is not for the faint of heart when it comes to violence or body count.
Obsessed with this entire series.
Whenever I see a Barry Eisler book I put down whatever else I’m reading and read his new book. I have read all of his books, some a couple of times. Excellent characters.
Wow! best in the series so far. Read this book… but beware! once you start you will not be able to put it down…
Livia Lone returns in All the Devils for her fourth grueling investigation, and third series-proper novel, after The Killer Collective saw her joining forces with Barry Eisler’s other series character, John Rain. And it just might be her biggest and most challenging case to date after Homeland Security agent B.D. Little finds new information surrounding his daughter’s disappearance that compels Livia to investigate.
Congressman Bradley “Boomer” Kane III is up for reelection when Snake, his old buddy from their Special Forces days, makes his way out of Leavenworth. The two reunite so that Snake can help Boomer deal with some pesky rape allegations being made by Kane’s old high school classmates, and reignite the bonds they forged in Iraq. Both men are serial rapists and the seven women they’ve disappeared all share a common signature, a fact that draws Livia into their orbit while hunting for Little’s missing daughter. Complicating things even further is Kane’s father, the vice-president of the United States, who is seeking to protect his own political career while saving Boomer from himself, by any means necessary.
Eisler, as usual, does a terrific job establishing credible and multifaceted threats and situations brimming with tension. It makes All the Devils a high-strung, pressure cooker read, one that grows increasingly tense the more Livia is backed into a corner. And fans of this series will know damn well that Livia is not the type of woman you want to back into a corner. She’s as complex, fierce, determined, and motivated as ever here, not to mention tough as hell. In addition to facing increasing scrutiny from the Seattle PD’s top brass over some unanswered questions from her involvement in The Killer Collective, Livia is forced to contend with an array of threats from a number of different directions, each seeking to take her down in their own various ways, either politically or through direct use of force. Thanks to her history and psychological make-up, there are times, too, where Livia may be her own greatest adversary.
All this makes for a complex and very timely story given the recent Jeffrey Epstein news and the #MeToo movement (interestingly, Livia was first introduced in 2016, nearly a full year before the hashtag’s popularity grew into a global phenomenon to speak out against and raise awareness of the prevalence of rape and sexual harassment and assault), but Eisler has a knack for delivering the plot in a straight-forward, easy to follow way. There’s a good amount of moving pieces here, and a good number of thriller layers, but it’s never overly complicated. All the Devils, though, does rely pretty heavily on being familiar with Livia’s past exploits, particularly Eisler’s series crossover novel The Killer Collective. Eisler brings readers up to speed capably, explaining the backstory for new readers, but you’ll have an easier time with it all if you’re at least familiar with his last release from earlier this year. All the Devils also closes the loop on several story threads introduced over the course of the last two Livia Lone novels, Livia Lone and The Night Trade.
Emotionally, Livia’s a tough nut to crack, and for good reason. The author’s exploration of her as both a killer, a cop, and a brutally damaged survivor is ridiculously compelling stuff. Eisler does a wonderful job exploring the human condition of this fractured soul and her attempts at not only making peace with herself, but with her attempts to heal and find her place in the world as something other than a revenge-driven killer. There’s a purpose to her mission, and even as she leaves a trail of bodies in her wake, it’s honestly touching to see her realize she’s not alone. She’s a vital heroine, particularly given the times we live in and, frankly, I wish there were more like her out there.
All the Devils offers up plenty of closure for fans who have stuck with this trilogy, and opens up some possible new avenues for Eisler to explore in future novels, should we be lucky enough to encounter Livia again. There’s still plenty more devils out there for Livia to contend with in her own special ways, and I’m keeping my fingers crossed this is not the last time we see her.