An ex-general from the former USSR named Vladimir Russianoff has smuggled a nuclear missile into China so that his rogue faction of the Communist Army can cause a war by launching it into...
Warlord Kang, a former Chinese operative for the KGB, is creating a genetically engineered army to take over the world. His albino henchman, Lu Chi, is sent to acquire a scientist for the...
The Godfather is a crime novel written by American author Mario Puzo, originally published in 1969 by G. P. Putnam's Sons. It details the story of a fictitious Sicilian Mafia family based in...
The Thirty-nine Steps is an adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan, first published in 1915 by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh. It is the first...
The Boys from Brazil is a thriller novel by Ira Levin. It was subsequently made into a movie of the same name that was released in 1978. Yakov Liebermann is an elderly gentleman who is...
The Dragon in the Sea , also known as Under Pressure from its serialization, is a novel by Frank Herbert. It was first serialized in Astounding magazine from 1955 to 1956, then reworked and...
Marathon Man is a 1974 paranoid thriller novel by William Goldman. In 1976 it was made into a film of the same name starring Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, and Roy Scheider and directed...
Executive Orders is a political and military thriller novel by Tom Clancy. It was published in 1996. Jack Ryan is sworn in as President of the United States minutes after becoming...
Strong Motion is a 1992 novel by Jonathan Franzen, the author's second novel. Strong Motion is part social criticism and part eco-thriller. Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of...
The Fourth Protocol is a novel written by Frederick Forsyth and published in August 1984. The title refers to the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which contained...
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare is a novel by G. K. Chesterton, first published in 1908. The book has been referred to as a metaphysical thriller. Its importance was recognized in its...
Ice Station Zebra is a 1963 thriller novel written by Scottish author Alistair MacLean. This was the last of MacLean's classic sequence of first person narratives which began with...
Firestarter is a novel by Stephen King originally published in 1980. It was serialized in Omni magazine prior to being published. The title character of Firestarter is Charlene "Charlie...
Temple is a thriller novel written by Australian author Matthew Reilly and first published in 1999. Like Reilly's other books, Temple's major attractions are the fast pace and the complexity...
Angels & Demons is a bestselling mystery novel by Dan Brown. Published in 2000, it introduces the character Robert Langdon, who is also the principal character of Brown's subsequent, better...
Windmills of the Gods is a 1987 novel by American thriller writer Sidney Sheldon. Mary Ashley, a professor at the Kansas State University is offered an ambassadorship by Paul Ellison, the...
The Most Dangerous Game is a first person narrative novel by English author Gavin Lyall, first published in 1964. Bill Cary is a bush pilot living in Lapland in northern Finland, making a...
The Eagle Has Landed is a book by Jack Higgins set during World War Two. It first published in 1975. It was made into a film of the same name in 1976 starring Michael Caine. The plot has...
Hornet Flight is a World War II based spy thriller written by British author Ken Follett. The U.S. hardcover edition was published by Dutton Books in 2002; the paperback printing ...
The Bear and the Dragon is a political thriller novel by Tom Clancy featuring Jack Ryan. It was published in 2000. In the book Jack Ryan is President of the United States. After Russia...
The Mahdi is a novel by Philip Nicholson, writing as A. J. Quinnell....
Interface is a 1994 novel by Neal Stephenson and George Jewsbury. It was originally sold with the author pseudonym of Stephen Bury, then reissued as being by Bury and J. Frederick George...
Coma is Robin Cook's first published novel written in 1977. The book was a New York Times best seller and was also voted as the number one thriller of the year by the New York Times. It was...
Godplayer is a novel by Robin Cook. It was first released in 1983 in the UK and USA. It has 285 pages. Like most of Cook's other work, it is a medical thriller....