{"product_id":"secondhand-crime-fiction-thriller-bargain-book-box-sp2767","title":"Secondhand Crime Fiction \u0026 Thriller Bargain Book Box SP2767","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand Crime Fiction \u0026amp; Thriller Bargain Book Box — 24 Books\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eA box built for readers who consume thrillers at speed and want serious quantity alongside reliable quality. Ian Rankin's \u003cem\u003eBlack \u0026amp; Blue\u003c\/em\u003e — winner of the CWA Gold Dagger — is the most distinguished single title, and the one most likely to convert casual readers into devoted Rebus followers. William Diehl's \u003cem\u003ePrimal Fear\u003c\/em\u003e and its sequel \u003cem\u003eShow of Evil\u003c\/em\u003e give the box its most recognisable film connection — Edward Norton's debut performance. Four Clive Cussler novels span both the Dirk Pitt and Kurt Austin series; four Richard North Patterson novels include his debut \u003cem\u003eThe Lasko Tangent\u003c\/em\u003e alongside three of his legal thrillers; three Grisham and three Sandford titles round out a box dominated by the heavyweights of American commercial fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr class=\"border-border-200 border-t-0.5 my-3 mx-1.5\"\u003e\n\u003col class=\"[li_\u0026amp;]:mb-0 [li_\u0026amp;]:mt-1 [li_\u0026amp;]:gap-1 [\u0026amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [\u0026amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-decimal flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eDragon\u003c\/em\u003e — Clive Cussler — Dirk Pitt races to prevent Japanese ultranationalists from detonating a nuclear device concealed in an automobile headed for America. Cussler's plotting is as relentless as his hero, and \u003cem\u003eDragon\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the most propulsive entries in the series.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eSkeleton Coast\u003c\/em\u003e — Clive Cussler with Jack Du Brul — A novel of the Oregon Files series, following Juan Cabrillo and his crew of mercenaries into the deadly diamond-smuggling waters off the Namibian coast. Cussler and Du Brul make the Oregon Files one of the most consistently entertaining of the Cussler franchises.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Kill Artist\u003c\/em\u003e — Daniel Silva — The novel that introduced Gabriel Allon — Israeli art restorer, assassin, and the most popular spy fiction protagonist of the past twenty years. Silva's plotting is meticulous, his Middle Eastern political landscape convincing, and Allon's moral weight immediately apparent. The essential starting point for the series.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Summons\u003c\/em\u003e — John Grisham — A law professor is summoned home by his dying judge father, arrives to find him dead and millions in cash hidden in the house — and no explanation. Grisham moves from the courtroom to a moral puzzle of considerable ingenuity.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Talbot Odyssey\u003c\/em\u003e — Nelson DeMille — A Cold War thriller following a KGB mole embedded in American intelligence for forty years, and the race to expose him before a devastating Soviet first strike. DeMille at his most expansive and conspiratorial.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003ePrivate Screening\u003c\/em\u003e — Richard North Patterson — A terrorism trial becomes a psychological duel between a prosecutor and the man behind a political assassination broadcast live on television. Patterson uses the courtroom as a stage for exploring media, violence, and American celebrity.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eMortal Prey\u003c\/em\u003e — John Sandford — Lucas Davenport hunts a female assassin who has returned to Minneapolis to settle a score. Sandford's Prey series is one of the most consistent in American crime fiction, and Davenport remains one of its most compelling investigators.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eBlack \u0026amp; Blue\u003c\/em\u003e — Ian Rankin — Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger. Rebus investigates a series of murders with echoes of Bible John — Scotland's most notorious unsolved serial killer — while Internal Affairs close in on him. One of the finest novels in the series and the book that confirmed Rankin as the definitive chronicler of modern Edinburgh.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eEyes of Prey\u003c\/em\u003e — John Sandford — The third Prey novel, in which Lucas Davenport hunts a killer whose crimes appear random but are anything but. Sandford's blend of police procedural, psychological depth, and dark humour is fully established by this point in the series.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Chamber\u003c\/em\u003e — John Grisham — A young lawyer takes on the seemingly hopeless appeal of a Ku Klux Klan member on death row — his own grandfather. Grisham uses the legal thriller framework to write seriously about capital punishment, racism, and family guilt.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Street Lawyer\u003c\/em\u003e — John Grisham — A high-flying corporate lawyer abandons his career after a hostage incident forces him to confront the homeless crisis in Washington D.C. Grisham's social conscience is at its most direct and effective here.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eFalse Impression\u003c\/em\u003e — Jeffrey Archer — An art world thriller built around a priceless Van Gogh earring and a killer who will eliminate anyone who stands between her and it. Archer constructs his international chase with the clockwork precision his readers expect.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eTrojan Odyssey\u003c\/em\u003e — Clive Cussler — Dirk Pitt and NUMA take on a conspiracy involving a mysterious brown tide threatening the Caribbean and a billionaire with dangerous plans. Late-period Cussler still delivering the adventure his millions of readers came for.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003ePolar Shift\u003c\/em\u003e — Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos — A Kurt Austin NUMA Files adventure in which a mad scientist plots to trigger a catastrophic shift in the Earth's magnetic poles. Cussler and Kemprecos build the NUMA Files as a satisfying companion series to the Dirk Pitt novels.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eSilent Witness\u003c\/em\u003e — Richard North Patterson — A man is drawn back to his hometown when his childhood sweetheart is murdered and her husband — his old friend — is accused. Patterson writes guilt, memory, and small-town secrets with genuine psychological intelligence.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eShow of Evil\u003c\/em\u003e — William Diehl — The sequel to \u003cem\u003ePrimal Fear\u003c\/em\u003e, in which Aaron Stampler — the altar boy whose trial Diehl made famous — is released from a mental institution and immediately suspected of murder. Diehl builds on the original's psychological complexity with satisfying darkness.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eSplit\u003c\/em\u003e — Tara Moss — Forensic investigator Makedde Vanderwall returns in a thriller that takes her from Australia to the United States and into a killer's carefully laid trap. Moss writes with genuine psychological research and a sharp feminist intelligence.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eEscape the Night\u003c\/em\u003e — Richard North Patterson — An early Patterson thriller of suspense and family secrets — the foundations of the psychological precision and legal complexity that would define his later career already clearly visible.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Lasko Tangent\u003c\/em\u003e — Richard North Patterson — Patterson's debut novel, in which a young government attorney uncovers political corruption that reaches into the highest levels of American power. The book that began one of the most commercially successful careers in American legal and political fiction.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eMarker\u003c\/em\u003e — Robin Cook — Cook invented the medical thriller and continues to command the genre with this story of a man investigating his wife's sudden death during a routine medical procedure — and the dangerous corporate conspiracy he uncovers. Cook's hospital settings remain as chilling as ever.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Charm School\u003c\/em\u003e — Nelson DeMille — A CIA operative stumbles onto evidence of a secret Soviet facility where American POWs from Vietnam are training KGB agents to pass as Americans. \u003cem\u003eMark Joseph\u003c\/em\u003e called it \"the best thing to come out of Russia since \u003cem\u003eGorky Park\u003c\/em\u003e\" — an assessment that stands up.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eParanoia\u003c\/em\u003e — Joseph Finder — A low-level corporate employee is blackmailed into spying on a rival tech company by his own employer — and discovers that corporate espionage is far more dangerous than anything he imagined. Finder writes the American corporate thriller with real inside knowledge and considerable wit.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003ePrimal Fear\u003c\/em\u003e — William Diehl — The novel that introduced altar boy Aaron Stampler — accused of a brutal murder, defended by a high-profile lawyer, and concealing a secret that changes everything. The basis for the film that launched Edward Norton's career, and still one of the most satisfying courtroom thrillers ever written.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Night Crew\u003c\/em\u003e — John Sandford — A standalone Sandford thriller following a woman who films crime scenes for television news and stumbles into a conspiracy of escalating violence. Sandford demonstrates that his gifts extend well beyond the Prey series.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48790581838043,"sku":"SP2767","price":110.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/IMG_0700.jpg?v=1779241833","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-crime-fiction-thriller-bargain-book-box-sp2767","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}