Secondhand Crime Fiction & Thriller Bargain Book Box SP2770

Secondhand Crime Fiction & Thriller Bargain Book Box SP2770

A broad and satisfying crime and thriller box with strong series representation on both sides of the Atlantic. Alistair MacLean and Wilbur Smith each appear twice, as do Thomas Harris, Jeffrey Archer, and P.D. James. Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse, Reginald Hill's Dalziel and Pascoe, Val McDermid, and Paullina Simons anchor the British and Australian crime thread, while Richard North Patterson, Michael Crichton, and James Grippando represent the American side. Mario Puzo's Godfather, Jack Higgins's Confessional, Tara Moss, and Henri Charrière's Papillon complete a wide-ranging box.

1. The Guns of Navarone — Alistair MacLean — The classic WWII adventure; a team of Allied commandos is sent to destroy two enormous German guns on a fortified Greek island before a stranded British force is wiped out.
2. The Lonely Sea — Alistair MacLean — A collection of short stories and novellas; MacLean draws on his own wartime naval experience for tales of men tested by extreme conditions at sea.
3. The Burning Shore — Wilbur Smith — A World War I-era adventure; a young Frenchwoman and a German submarine commander are survivors of a deadly encounter, their stories intertwining with the South African saga.
4. Shockwave — Colin Forbes — A contemporary thriller from the bestselling British author; a relentless plot involving terrorism and industrial catastrophe.
5. The Sound of Thunder — Wilbur Smith — A sweeping South African saga; the sequel to When the Lion Feeds, following the Courtney family through the gold rush era and the Anglo-Boer War.
6. Innocent Blood — P.D. James — A standalone psychological thriller; an adopted woman discovers the truth about her birth parents and finds herself drawn into a deadly pursuit of consequences she did not anticipate.
7. The Godfather — Mario Puzo — The defining novel of organised crime; the rise and struggles of the Corleone family, one of the most influential novels of the 20th century and the basis for Coppola's landmark film.
8. Confessional — Jack Higgins — A Cold War thriller; an IRA assassin trained by the KGB targets the Pope on his visit to England, and a British intelligence operative races to stop him.
9. Dead Man Walking — Helen Prejean — The Catholic nun's shattering account of accompanying death row inmates to their executions in Louisiana; the book that sparked a global debate on capital punishment and the basis for the Tim Robbins film.
10. Honour Among Thieves — Jeffrey Archer — A thriller involving a daring plot by Saddam Hussein to steal the original copy of the American Declaration of Independence; Archer at his most extravagant.
11. Split — Tara Moss — A Mak Vanderwall novel; a fast-moving feminist thriller featuring a tenacious protagonist investigating dark crimes across Sydney.
12. Hannibal — Thomas Harris — The third Hannibal Lecter novel; the cannibal genius returns in a story that takes him from Florence to a deadly confrontation with the only surviving victim ever to best him.
13. Black Sunday — Thomas Harris — Harris's debut thriller; a Palestinian terrorist plots to detonate a bomb over the Super Bowl using a hijacked Goodyear blimp, in a taut race-against-time narrative.
14. Prey — Michael Crichton — A techno-thriller from the author of Jurassic Park; a swarm of self-replicating nanobots escapes from a Nevada laboratory and begins to evolve at a terrifying pace.
15. 36: The Collected Short Stories — Jeffrey Archer — A substantial omnibus of Archer's short fiction; compulsively readable, twist-laden tales of ambition, fate, and ironic justice collected across his career.
16. Daring Decoy — Erle Stanley Gardner — A Perry Mason novel; the master defence attorney takes on a case of deadly deception in one of Gardner's characteristically ingenious legal thrillers.
17. Degree of Guilt — Richard North Patterson — A San Francisco attorney defends a woman who shot a famous writer, claiming self-defence against attempted rape; a taut courtroom thriller that raises difficult questions about truth and exploitation.
18. Service of All the Dead — Colin Dexter — An Inspector Morse novel; a series of deaths centred on an Oxford church draws Morse into a web of religious hypocrisy, sexual obsession, and carefully constructed lies.
19. Death of an Expert Witness — P.D. James — An Adam Dalgliesh novel set in a forensic science laboratory in the English Fens; when the senior scientist is murdered, Dalgliesh must unravel the secrets of an isolated professional community.
20. Papillon — Henri Charrière — The autobiographical account of Charrière's imprisonment in the brutal French penal colonies of South America and his extraordinary series of escape attempts; one of the great survival narratives.
21. Eleven Hours — Paullina Simons — A taut thriller by the Australian author of The Bronze Horseman; a heavily pregnant woman is taken hostage in a mall carjacking, and police have eleven hours to find her.
22. Kick Back — Val McDermid — A Kate Brannigan novel; the Manchester-based private investigator probes housing fraud that rapidly spirals into something far more dangerous.
23. Beyond Suspicion — James Grippando — A Jack Swyteck novel; a Miami defence attorney's ex-girlfriend is found dead, and he must prove his innocence while unravelling a conspiracy that reaches into the highest levels of power.
24. On Beulah Height — Reginald Hill — A Dalziel and Pascoe novel; a drought reveals the ruins of a flooded Yorkshire village and reopens a missing girl case from fifteen years earlier — one of Hill's most celebrated novels.