From New York Times bestselling author Barry Eisler…Livia Lone is back.For sex-crimes detective Livia Lone, a position with a government anti-trafficking task force is a chance to return to Thailand to ferret out Rithisak Sorm, the kingpin behind her own childhood ordeal.But after a planned takedown in a nightclub goes violently awry, Livia discovers that she’s not the only one hunting Sorm. … the only one hunting Sorm. Former marine sniper Dox has a score to settle, too, and working together is the only way to take Sorm out.
Livia and Dox couldn’t be less alike. But they share a single-minded creed: the law has to serve justice. And if it doesn’t, justice has to be served another way.
What they don’t know is that in threatening Sorm, they’re also threatening a far-reaching conspiracy—one involving the highest levels of America’s own intelligence apparatus. It turns out that killing Sorm just might be the easy part. The real challenge will be payback from his protectors.
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I read the epub version several months ago. I then went back and listened to the audiobook production … I have said this before and I’ll repeat it here… there are parts of Barry’s story telling that you will need a freaking seatbelt…
His characters and their conversations invite you into each scene and make you feel like you are standing there taking it all in…
The best part for me is Barry’s wonderful audiobook productions. His voice and language accents are among the best I’ve ever heard … Barry, if you would ever consider being the voice for one of my novels, I would… be flattered!
Read this series… you will not be disappointed… sleep deprived… but definitely wanting more.
Dark reading but that is why it is good, it feels like it can actually happen.
The day this book was released, I was like, “Is it my birthday already? Yes, yes, yes!”
Forget that I’m middle aged, because I am oh-so-much the giddy fangirl for author Barry Eisler, I couldn’t wait even a minute to buy both the Kindle and Audible versions of The Night Trade . And now I can tell you, it was absolutely money well spent. Eisler proves yet again he is a true master of characterization, action and dialogue.
In keeping with the tone of the first in the series, Livia Lone , The Night Trade is a powerful and truly dark action thriller. Emotionally flawed BADASS Livia Lone is back to continue her life-long commitment to righting the wrongs of her childhood. How we love to see this vigilante in action!
Especially thrilling in this entry into the Livia Lone series was the world-merging with Eisler’s John Rain novels. (If Stephen King can do it with Castle Rock, why not Barry Eisler?) Who doesn’t love John Rain’s Marine sniper buddy, good old boy Dox (short for Unorthodox)? His jaunty Texan personality always makes my day, so I was thrilled to see him teamed up with Livia to kick ass in some fairly brutal and intense action together. Dox may ooze country charm when he needs to, but he has a side almost as dark and skilled as Livia. They make a solid pair, and I hope he makes an appearance in Livia #3.
Oh please, let there be a #3, a #4, and more!
Despite my obvious exuberance over this book, The Night Trade was a deeply serious novel and the story revealed, yet again, the sickening reality of human trafficking in our world, but it did offer up a bit of tension-releasing humor. Dox’s words of wisdom were always just a bit quirky, but still right on the money. I laughed the hardest at “a turtle doesn’t get up on a bookshelf by itself.”
My favorite Doxism, however, was actually the theme of the book: “Some people just need killing.” And oh, how they got what they needed.
In my opinion, this second Livia Lone book is much more enjoyable to read than the first. The first more graphically describes the background of this story, though,
Livia Lone is a terrific character, a cop driven by her past to do what she can to stop human trafficking and punish the traffickers who took her and her sister from Thailand as children. In this book she meets up with Dox, a favorite character from the John Rain series, to put some personal demons to rest.