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The Vivero Letter, by Desmond Bagley »

The Vivero Letter is an extremely fast paced thriller by the British thriller master Desmond Bagley that was turned into a great movie with the same name. All of the characters are believable, and the descriptions of the locations are so vivid that they place you firmly into the middle of the action.
Jeremy Wheale’s very [...]

The Day Trader, by Stephen Frey »

Day trading is a new practice that emerged with the Internet. For a while it was extremely popular. A day trader is commonly thought of as a guy (or girl) that sits at his computer, hooked up to the net, and moves great amounts of money around electronically, usually buying and selling share of [...]

Hunter Killer, by Patrick Robinson »

The plot in Hunter Killer focuses on Saudi Arabia, both its internal political and economic problems, and it’s role in the wider world economy as the prime provider of oil. In this book, Robinson has created a scenario where the Saudi royal family and the numerous princes and other family members spend so much money [...]

The English Assassin, by Daniel Silva »

Another strong, dark story from one of the new masters of spy thriller writing, Daniel Silva! This book too features an ensemble of very fascinating characters. In The English Assassin we meet, once again, Israeli assassin and art restorer Gabriel Allon. His prime opponent is an extremely wealthy Swiss banker who controls the Swiss [...]

Empire of Lies, by Andrew Klavan »

Edgar-winner Andrew Klavan’s Empire of Lies (see also his True Crime) is a strange but appealing book. It is a thriller, but it is also a pretty wicked satirical book. It tells the somewhat strange the story of the middle aged Jason Harrow, a man living a pretty boring and extremely conservative life, but [...]

A Person of Interest, by Susan Choi »

After fictionalizing elements of the Patty Hearst kidnapping for her second novel (the 2004 Pulitzer finalist American Woman: A Novel), here Choi combines elements of the Wen Ho Lee accusations and the Unabomber case to create a haunting meditation on the myriad forms of alienation.
The suggestively named Lee, as he’s called throughout, is a solitary [...]

The Takeover, by Stephen W. Frey »

Stephen Frey is an interesting author. In “real life” he is a principal at a Northern Virginia private equity firm. He previously worked in mergers and acquisitions at J. P. Morgan. He has also been a vice president of corporate finance at an international bank in Midtown Manhattan. Thus Frey is an author that really [...]

The Messenger, by Daniel Silva »

Daniel Silva excels at writing about spy tradecraft. However, he is also very good at describing characters and the complex relationships between them. In The Messenger these qualities are at the fore. This is a very realistic, extremely exciting book.
The Messenger opens in London where a professor of Middle Eastern studies is suspected of having [...]

Paths of Glory, by Jeffrey Archer »

Jeffrey Archer, the somewhat controversial British master storyteller, whose novels and short stories have topped the bestseller lists around the world, and with sales of more than 135 million copies, has just published a new novel. This one, Paths of Glory, is different from other books Archer has written – it is a novel based [...]

The Good Guy, by Dean Koontz »

In The Good Guy, Dean Koontz lets a seemingly ordinary fellow by accident be placed in a situation where he comes between a murderous psychopath and a total stranger, a female named Linda, whom the psychopath is hired to kill. Initially he is mistaken for a killer for hire. Then he feels forced [...]