Thriller Books
Power duo Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason team up in Kill Zone, a perilous disaster thriller for the modern age. Deep within a mountain in Albuquerque, ...
Sam Capra - brilliant CIA agent, loving husband, expectant father - loses everything that matters to him in a horrifying moment in London. An unknown enemy ...
A JOE REACHER THRILLER He Saved Reacher’s Life. Now He’s the Enemy. But when a decorated Special Forces officer goes dark in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula-and ...
Praise for this book: "Tense, compelling and remarkably timely... Shades of some of the greats of spy fiction - it might even be better than Charles ...
Brett Battles won rave reviews for his debut novel, The Cleaner, which introduced hero Jonathan Quinn. A freelance operative and professional “cleaner,” ...
Meet Jonathan Quinn: a freelance operative with a take-no-prisoners style and the heart of a loner. His job? Professional “cleaner.” Nothing too violent, ...
If the Rock falls, the world burns. When a British agent is killed off the coast of Spain, MI6 turn to Spencer Bly, a brilliant but ruthless former ...
CIA agent John Wells returns in a cutting-edge novel of modern suspense from the #1 New York Times bestselling writer. Early one morning, a former CIA ...
A New York Times reporter has drawn upon his experience covering the occupation in Iraq to write the most gripping and chillingly plausible thriller of the ...
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Interfering with the presidential election was just the first step. The Russians don't just want to influence American ...
This is New York Times bestseller Alex Berenson's eighth gripping spy novel featuring ex-CIA agent John Wells. At an Istanbul hotel, an informant tells the ...
When the threat level goes critical, call the Trigger Man. A team of investigative journalists have published the Luxembourg Papers, a cache of leaked ...
"A multipronged spy thriller that fires on all cylinders" featuring a British agent facing down government conspiracy (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). In a ...
Set in China, and ripped from today's headlines, comes a pulse-pounding debut that reinvents the spy thriller for the 21st century. A lone man, Peanut, ...
Three women become sex slaves to a South American diplomat's murderous and political impulses. Through the power of his sexuality, the Diplomat recruits ...
Description
Thrillers are known for their fast-paced plots, frequent action, and resourceful heroes who must overcome powerful and well-equipped villains. These stories often use literary devices such as suspense, red herrings, and cliffhangers to keep readers on the edge of their seats.
Though thrillers often overlap with mysteries, they are distinguished by their plot structure. In a thriller, the hero’s mission is to thwart the plans of an enemy, rather than simply solve a crime that has already taken place. Thrillers also tend to have higher stakes, involving large-scale threats like serial or mass murder, terrorism, assassination, or the toppling of governments. Jeopardy and violent confrontations are standard in these plots. While a mystery reaches its climax when the mystery is solved, a thriller reaches its peak when the hero finally defeats the villain, saving themselves and often many others.