Secondhand Crime Fiction & Thriller Bargain Book Box SP2839

Secondhand Crime Fiction & Thriller Bargain Book Box SP2839

Twenty thrillers chosen for one purpose: to keep you reading well past when you meant to stop. Jack Reacher, Jason Bourne, and Mitch Rapp are all present, the hardcovers are big and satisfying, and the paperbacks reach back to the golden age of British spy fiction and Australian crime. A box this well-stocked with reliable, propulsive reads is rare — the only problem it creates is deciding where to start.

1. Against All Enemies — Tom Clancy — Clancy's thriller about a deadly terrorist conspiracy targeting the United States, built around the special operations world and the intelligence agencies racing to stop a catastrophic attack before it can be launched.
2. The Chamber — John Grisham — A young lawyer races against time to save his grandfather — a Ku Klux Klan member on death row — in a novel that is simultaneously a gripping countdown narrative and a serious examination of capital punishment in the American South.
3. The Tournament — Matthew Reilly — A brilliantly inventive Reilly novel set in 1546, in which a young Queen Elizabeth I and her tutor Roger Ascham attend a chess tournament hosted by Suleiman the Magnificent and find themselves at the centre of a murder mystery with lethal stakes.
4. The Romanov Prophecy — Steve Berry — A lawyer discovers a centuries-old secret about the Romanov dynasty that threatens to rewrite modern Russian history, in a Berry thriller that is as historically inventive as it is impossible to put down.
5. Precipice — Colin Forbes — Forbes's international thriller pitting his hero against a ruthless adversary across a backdrop of global stakes and relentless pacing — the kind of book that makes a long flight feel too short.
6. Past Tense — Lee Child — Jack Reacher arrives in the New Hampshire town where his father was born and finds himself drawn into two apparently unrelated mysteries that converge with the explosive efficiency only Lee Child can manage.
7. The Bourne Dominion — Robert Ludlum's series, continued by Eric Van Lustbader — Jason Bourne faces a lethal new threat in one of Van Lustbader's most tightly plotted continuations, maintaining the pressure and paranoia that define the franchise.
8. The Bourne Legacy — Robert Ludlum's series, continued by Eric Van Lustbader — Van Lustbader's debut continuation of the Bourne franchise, picking up with the same globe-trotting suspense and the enduring question of how much of Bourne's real identity still survives.
9. The Jungle — Clive Cussler with Jack Du Brul — The Oregon Files team takes on a mission deep into Southeast Asia in one of the series' most exotic and action-packed adventures, combining Cussler's maritime adventure with Du Brul's gift for jungle-set tension.
10. Zero Hour — Clive Cussler with Graham Brown — The NUMA Files team races to prevent an energy weapon capable of causing worldwide catastrophic damage, in a non-stop thriller blending hard science, historical mystery, and pure Cussler adventure.
11. The Beijing Conspiracy — Adrian d'Hage — Australian author d'Hage's thriller set against the backdrop of Chinese military power and global intelligence warfare, drawn from his background as a former Australian defence force commander — authenticity that few thriller writers can match.
12. The Walking Dead — Gerald Seymour — A British-born Pakistani is radicalised and set on a path toward mass murder while the intelligence services close in, written with the moral complexity and procedural authority that have made Seymour one of the most respected names in British espionage fiction.
13. Memorial Day — Vince Flynn — Mitch Rapp goes on the offensive against a terrorist cell planning a catastrophic attack on Washington in a Flynn novel that is relentlessly paced and unapologetically visceral — one of the strongest entries in the Rapp series.
14. The Bourne Identity — Robert Ludlum — The novel that created one of the great characters in thriller fiction: Jason Bourne, found wounded at sea with no memory and a set of skills that make him either an assassin or a target — or both. Still the best of the series.
15. Hell is Always Today — Jack Higgins — An early Higgins thriller set in the fog-bound streets of a British city, in which a serial killer terrorizes the night while police and a government agent close in with mounting dread.
16. A Toll for the Brave — Jack Higgins — An ex-Special Forces soldier haunted by what happened to him as a prisoner of war in Vietnam is drawn into a deadly conspiracy that forces him to confront both his past and his limits — Higgins at his darkest.
17. Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing — Gabrielle Lord — Lord's thriller set in the world of Australian film production, where the glamorous surface conceals a murderous underworld — driven by her sharp eye for character and her gift for Sydney atmosphere.
18. Death Delights — Gabrielle Lord — A series of deaths linked to a predatory herbalist draws detective Cassie Ayres into a case involving the dark side of alternative medicine, with Lord's pace and plotting at their most assured.
19. The Twentieth Day of January — Ted Allbeury — Allbeury's prescient Cold War thriller about a Soviet agent being positioned to influence the highest levels of American government — written in 1980 and more unsettling now than ever, one of the most chilling spy novels of its decade.
20. Consent to Kill — Vince Flynn — When a powerful sheik puts a price on Mitch Rapp's head, the hunter becomes the hunted in one of Flynn's most personal Rapp novels — a thriller about vengeance, loyalty, and what happens when the world's most dangerous operative becomes a target.