16 ratings | 10 reviews | avg rating:4.38

Barry Lancet’s Followers (170)

Barry’s Bookshelves

to-read (6)
currently-reading (0)
read (18)
japan (7)

Barry’s Friends (365)

Nicki

2,676 books | 296 friends

Melisa Dowling Reed

73,444 books | 1,351 friends

Suzanne

4,028 books | 642 friends

Sam

11,198 books | 802 friends

Shannon Wise

21,815 books | 164 friends

D.R. Oestreicher

729 books | 1,272 friends

Rachel

3,330 books | 81 friends

Harshad Udayakumar

1,093 books | 431 friends

More friends…

Barry Lancet

Goodreads Author

Born

in cincinnatti, The United States

June 29

Website

http://barrylancet.com/

Twitter

barrylancet

Genre

Thriller, Mystery, Fiction

Member Since

February 2012

edit data

Barry Lancet is the author of the award-winning international suspense series featuring Jim Brodie. The latest entry is THE SPY ACROSS THE TABLE (Simon & Schuster) and sends Brodie careening from Washington, D.C. and San Francisco to Japan, then on to South Korea, the DMZ, and the Chinese-North Korean border in a story that could have been ripped from today’s headlines. In one of the first advance reviews, Publishers’ Weekly said that “Lancet keeps the suspense high through the exciting climax.”

The previous entry in the series, PACIFIC BURN, explores the tragic aftermath of the Fukushima quake-tsunami disaster and the real reasons behind the nuclear melt down. JAPANTOWN, the first Brodie adventure, won the Barry Award for Best First Novel, ...more

Learn more
Ask the Author

To ask Barry Lancet questions, please sign up.

Combine Editions
Barry Lancet’s books

Average rating: 3.77 · 4,915 ratings · 871 reviews · 12 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Tattoo Murder Case by Akimitsu Takagi, Barry Lancet (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Deborah Boehm (Translator) 3.72 avg rating — 3,741 ratings — published 1948 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Japantown (Jim Brodie #1) 3.65 avg rating — 1,230 ratings — published 2013 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tokyo Kill (Jim Brodie #2) 3.89 avg rating — 591 ratings — published 2014 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life Is Short and Then You Die: Mystery Writers of America Presents First Encounters with Murder by Kelley Armstrong (Goodreads Author) (Editor), R.L. Stine (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Y.S. Lee (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.51 avg rating — 580 ratings — published 2019 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pacific Burn (Jim Brodie #3) 4.02 avg rating — 355 ratings — published 2016 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Spy Across the Table (Jim Brodie #4) 4.10 avg rating — 220 ratings — published 2017 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Writers Crushing COVID-19 by Lawrence Kelter (Editor), Lynn Chandler Willis (Goodreads Author), Barry Lancet (Goodreads Author) 4.17 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aftershock: Artists Respond to Disaster in Japan by Adam Pasion (editor), Sam Spina (Contributor), Noah Van Sciver (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Discipleship Explored: Handbook by Barry Cooper (2012-03-16) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tokyo Kill (Thriller) by Barry Lancet (Goodreads Author), Olivier Debernard (translator), Fabrice Borio (illustrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

More books by Barry Lancet…

2 posts
Barry Lancet's Blog

Top Ten Mysteries Set in Asia

Need some ideas for new reading material? Check out what I consider the best mystery stories written that are set in Asia. Published in The Strand.

https://www.strandmag.com/top-ten-mys...

Like • 0 comments • flag

Published on January 13, 2016 14:28 • Tags: asia, mysteries, the-strand, thrillers

View all 2 posts »

Series by Barry Lancet

Jim Brodie (4 books)
by

Barry Lancet (Goodreads Author)

3.80 avg rating — 2,396 ratings

If you ask us, it's always the perfect time to lose yourself in a page-turning mystery. To help you sleuth out a new read, we asked the...

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
The Seasonal Read...: Winter 2014 Completed Tasks: Do Not Delete Posts	4134	772	Mar 11, 2015 04:43AM
Mystery/Thriller ...: Elizabeth's Febuary's 2016 Reads ( so far)	3	21	Feb 08, 2016 07:38PM
The Seasonal Read...: Completed Tasks: PLEASE DO NOT DELETE ANY POST IN THIS THREAD	2760	473	May 31, 2017 09:01PM
Around the Year i...: The A-Z Bookish Survey Tag	26	207	Oct 28, 2017 02:12PM
The Seasonal Read...: Completed Tasks: PLEASE DO NOT DELETE ANY POST IN THIS THREAD	2639	787	Nov 30, 2017 09:01PM
What's the Name o...: ABANDONED. P.I. assisted by Spirits of Samurai Warriors	4	823	Jul 17, 2023 09:15AM
The Mystery, Crim...: Currently reading? Just finished? 2024	2350	983	Jan 01, 2025 01:33AM
Edelweiss & Netga...: What new to NG or EW books have you just read?	127	69	Nov 23, 2025 08:18AM
The Reading For P...: What Do you Think? Book Reviews Centre	5363	431	3 hours, 35 min ago

More…

Barry’s Quotes

“If you're reading this...
Congratulations, you're alive.
If that's not something to smile about,
then I don't know what is.”
― Chad Sugg, Monsters Under Your Head