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Espionage
Espionage or Spying involves an individual obtaining information that is considered secret or confidential without the permission of the holder of the information. Espionage is inherently clandestine, as the legitimate holder of the information may change plans or take other countermeasures once it...
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Dracula
Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula.
Dracula has been attributed to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel and invasion...
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- 1897
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- 1897
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- 2072
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. Before its 1902 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon....
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- 1902
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Cryptonomicon
Cryptonomicon is a 1999 novel by American author Neal Stephenson. It concurrently follows both the exploits of World War II-era Allied codebreakers and tactical-deception operatives affiliated with the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley...
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- 1999
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- 1999
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- 19870
The Hunt for Red October
The Hunt for Red October is a 1984 novel by Tom Clancy. The story follows the intertwined adventures of Soviet submarine captain Marko Aleksandrovich Ramius and CIA analyst Jack (John) Patrick Ryan.
The novel was originally published by the U.S....
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- 1984
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The Cardinal of the Kremlin
The Cardinal of the Kremlin is a novel by Tom Clancy, featuring his character Jack Ryan. It is a sequel to The Hunt for Red October, based around the development of the Strategic Defense Initiative and its Soviet equivalent, covering themes...
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- 1988
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Debt of Honor
Debt of Honor (1994) is a novel by Tom Clancy. It is a continuation of the series featuring his character Jack Ryan. In this installment, Ryan has become the National Security Advisor when the Japanese government (controlled by a group of corporate...
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Typee
Typee (1846; in full: Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life) is American writer Herman Melville's first book, partly based on his actual experiences as a captive on Nuku Hiva (which Melville spelled as Nukuheva) in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands and...
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- 1846
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- Feb 26, 1846
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- 21279
The IPCRESS File
The IPCRESS File was the first spy novel by Len Deighton, published in 1962.
It was made into a film in 1965 produced by Harry Saltzman and directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Michael Caine as the protagonist.
The plot involves mind control, the...
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The Andromeda Strain
The Andromeda Strain (1969), by Michael Crichton, is a techno-thriller novel documenting the efforts of a team of scientists investigating a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism that rapidly and fatally clots human blood while, in other people,...
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- 1969
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- May 12, 1969
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- 6349
Clear and Present Danger
Clear and Present Danger is a novel by Tom Clancy, written in 1989, and is a canonical part of the Ryanverse. In the novel, Jack Ryan is thrown into the position of CIA Acting Deputy Director (Intelligence) and discovers that he is being kept in the...
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Time Enough for Love
Time Enough for Love is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, first published in 1973. The work was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1973 and both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1974.
The book focuses on the adventures and...
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- 1973
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- Jun 1973
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- 1009
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Funeral in Berlin
Funeral in Berlin is a spy novel by Len Deighton.
The subject of the novel — arranging a Soviet scientist's defection — is dated, but the characters (especially Johnny Vulkan and Colonel Stok) remain memorable. Another controversial character is the...
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- 1964
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Billion-Dollar Brain
Billion-Dollar Brain (1966, ISBN 0-09-985710-3) is a Cold War spy novel by Len Deighton, and the fourth protagonised by an anonymous secret agent working for the British WOOC(P) intelligence agency. It follows The IPCRESS File (1962), Horse Under...
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- 1966
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The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon: A Novel
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999) is a psychological horror novel by Stephen King. In 2004, a pop-up book adaptation was released, designed by Kees Moerbeek and illustrated by Alan Dingman.
The story is set in motion by a family hiking trip,...
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- 1999
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- Apr 6, 1999
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- 20335
On the Beach
On the Beach is a post-apocalyptic end-of-the-world novel written by British-Australian author Nevil Shute after he had emigrated to Australia. It was published in 1957.
The novel was adapted for the screenplay of a 1959 film featuring Gregory Peck,...
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- 1957
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- 1957
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- 1437
The Dragon in the Sea
The Dragon in the Sea (1956), also known as Under Pressure from its serialization, is a novel by Frank Herbert. It was first serialized in Astounding magazine from 1955 to 1956, then reworked and published as a book in 1956. (A 1961 2nd printing of...
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- 1956
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In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood is a 1966 book by American author Truman Capote.
The book details the brutal 1959 murders of Herbert Clutter, a wealthy farmer from Holcomb, Kansas, and his wife and two of their children. When Capote learned of the quadruple murder...
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- 1966
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Executive Orders
Executive Orders is a political and military thriller novel by Tom Clancy. It was published in 1996, and is a canonical part of the 'Ryanverse'.
Jack Ryan is sworn in as President of the United States minutes after becoming Vice-President. With most...
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Cujo
Cujo (1981) is a psychological horror novel by Stephen King. The novel won the British Fantasy Award in 1982, and was made into a film of the same name in 1983.
The story focuses on the Trenton family: Vic, an advert designer, his adulterous wife...
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- 1981
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- Sep 8, 1981
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- 2292
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The Blind Assassin
The Blind Assassin is an award winning, bestselling novel by the Canadian author Margaret Atwood. It was first published by McClelland and Stewart in 2000. Set in Canada, it is narrated from the present day, referring back to events that span the...
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- Sep 2000
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- Sep 2, 2000
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- 186366
The Day of the Jackal
The Day of the Jackal (1971) is a thriller novel by English writer Frederick Forsyth, about a professional assassin who is contracted by the OAS French terrorist group of the early 1960s, to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.
The Day...
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- Jun 7, 1971
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a work by John Berendt. The book was Berendt's first, and became a The New York Times bestseller for 216 weeks following its debut.
The book was subsequently made into a 1997 movie directed by Clint...
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The Fourth Protocol
The Fourth Protocol is a novel written by Frederick Forsyth and published in August 1984.
The title refers to the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which (at least in the world of the novel) contained four secret protocols. The fourth, of the...
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- Aug 1984
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Red Rabbit
Red Rabbit (2002) is a New York Times bestselling novel by Tom Clancy. It revolves around the 1981 plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II.
Jack Ryan, CIA, helps with transporting a Russian defector and his family to the United States with the help of...
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The Sea-Wolf
The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American writer Jack London about a literary critic and other survivors of an ocean collision who come under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who rescues them....
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- 1904
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Prey
Prey
is a techno-thriller novel by Michael Crichton first published in
hardback edition in November 2002 and as a paperback edition in
November 2003 by Harper Collins. Like Jurassic Park, the novel serves
as a cautionary tale about developments in...
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- 2002
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- Nov 25, 2002
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- 24543
The Bourne Identity
The Bourne Identity is a 1980 spy fiction thriller novel by Robert Ludlum about a retrograde amnesiac who must discover who he is and why several groups, including an assassin and the CIA, are trying to kill him. It is the first of the Bourne...
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- Feb 1980
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The Man Who Was Thursday
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare is a novel by G. K. Chesterton, first published in 1908. The book is sometimes referred to as a metaphysical thriller. Its importance was recognized in its later revival in paperback by Ballantine Books as the...
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- 1908
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- 1908
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- 11969
A Simple Plan
A Simple Plan is a novel by American author Scott Smith that was published in 1993. A movie based on the novel, directed by Sam Raimi, was released in 1998. A Simple Plan is predominantly a moral tale which deals with issues of greed, the American...
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- 1993
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- Aug 31, 1993
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Passage of Arms
Passage of Arms is a novel by Eric Ambler, written in 1959. It is a fast paced thriller about the discovery of a cache of arms abandoned by communist insurgents in the jungle of Malaya, and the transfer of the arms via Singapore to Indonesia. The...
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- 1959
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The Eyre Affair
The Eyre Affair is the first published novel by British author Jasper Fforde, released by Hodder and Stoughton in 2001. It takes place in alternative 1985, where literary detective Thursday Next pursues a master criminal through the world of...
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- 2001
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- Jul 19, 2001
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- 22027
The Sum of All Fears
The Sum of All Fears is the best-selling thriller novel by Tom Clancy, and part of the Jack Ryan series. It was the fourth book of the series to be turned into a film.
An interesting note is that this book was released just days before the Moscow...
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- 1991
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- 862885
The Pelican Brief
The Pelican Brief is a legal-suspense thriller written by John Grisham in 1992. The hardcover edition was published by Doubleday in that same year. Two paperback editions were published, both by Dell Publishing in 1993.
The story begins with the...
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- 1992
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The Black Arrow
The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses is an 1888 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, which can be classed genre-wise as a historical adventure novel and a romance. It first appeared as a serial in 1883 with the subtitle "A Tale of Tunstall Forest"...
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- 1883
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- 1888
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- 175178
The Confusion
The Confusion is a novel by Neal Stephenson. It is the second volume in The Baroque Cycle.
The Confusion consists of two books, Bonanza and The Juncto which are "con-fused" together, so that one jumps back and forth between them as one reads through...
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- Apr 2004
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- 2004
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- 33346
Helter Skelter
Helter Skelter is a true crime book by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry. The subject of the book is the 1969 Manson Family murders and Bugliosi's own prosecution of Charles Manson and his followers.
Helter Skelter was first published in the United...
Angels and Demons
Angels & Demons is a 2000 bestselling mystery-thriller novel written by American author Dan Brown and published by Pocket Books. It revolves around the quest of fictional Harvard University symbologist Robert Langdon to uncover the mysteries of a...
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- 2000 ,
- May 2000
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- May 2000
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- 182582
Windmills of the Gods
Windmills of the Gods is a 1987 thriller novel by American writer Sidney Sheldon.
Mary Ashley, a professor at Kansas State University, is offered an ambassadorship by Paul Ellison, the US president. She rejects the offer because her husband, Dr....
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- 1987
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Gorky Park
Gorky Park is a 1981 crime novel written by Martin Cruz Smith set in the Soviet Union. It follows Arkady Renko, a chief investigator for the Militsiya, who is assigned to a case involving three corpses found in Gorky Park, an amusement park in...
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- Mar 1981
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Killing Pablo
Killing Pablo is a book detailing the efforts by both the United States government and the Colombian government to stop illegal activities committed by Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar and his subordinates, written by Mark Bowden.
Bowden originally...
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Congo
Congo is a 1980 science fiction novel by Michael Crichton. The novel centers on an expedition searching for diamonds and inspecting the mysterious deaths of the previous expedition in the dense rain forest of Congo.
The novel starts with an abrupt...
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- 1980
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- 1980
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- 6352
Atticus Kodiak
Atticus Kodiak is the fictional protagonist of a series of novels written by Greg Rucka. The series concerns Atticus's career as a professional bodyguard.
First in the series (1996). Atticus is hired to protect a woman who will speak at an abortion...
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The Eagle Has Landed
The Eagle Has Landed is a book by Jack Higgins set during World War II. It first published in 1975. It was made into a film of the same name in 1976 starring Michael Caine. The plot has some similarities with that of Went the Day Well?, a film made...
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- Sep 8, 1975
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The Conformist
The Conformist (Il conformista) is a novel by Alberto Moravia published in 1951, which details the life and desire for normalcy of a government official during Italy's fascist period. It is also known for the 1970 film adaptation by Bernardo...
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- 1951
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Area 7
Area 7 is a novel written by Australian thriller writer Matthew Reilly. It is his fourth book, published in 2001, and is the sequel to Ice Station.
The President of the United States is visiting America's most secret military installation, Area 7....
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- Oct 31, 2001
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Spycatcher
Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer (also Spycatcher), is a book written by Peter Wright, former MI5 secret service officer and Assistant Director, and co-author Paul Greengrass. It was published first in Australia....
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- Jul 31, 1987
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Night Over Water
Night Over Water is a politically-minded novel written by author Ken Follett and published by William Morrow in 1991. It was reprinted as a paperback book in the U.S. in 1992.
Night Over Water is a fictionalized account of the final flight of the...
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Eye of the Needle
Eye of the Needle is a spy thriller novel written by British author Ken Follett. It was originally published in 1978 by the Penguin Group titled Storm Island. This novel was Follett's first successful, bestselling effort as a novelist, and it earned...
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Jackdaws
Jackdaws is a World War II spy thriller written by British novelist Ken Follett. It was published in hardcover format in 2001 by the Penguin Group. It was reissued as a paperback book by Signet Books in 2002.
Follett wastes no time in getting the...
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The Secret Agent
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is a novel by Joseph Conrad published in 1907. The story is set in London in 1886 and deals largely with the life of Mr. Verloc and his job as a spy. The Secret Agent is also notable as it is one of Conrad's later...
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- Sep 1907
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The Bourne Supremacy
The Bourne Supremacy is the second Jason Bourne novel written by Robert Ludlum, first published in 1986. It was the sequel to Ludlum's bestseller The Bourne Identity (1980) and precedes Ludlum's final Bourne novel, The Bourne Ultimatum (1990).
The...
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- Feb 11, 1986
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The Puzzle Palace
The Puzzle Palace is a book written by James Bamford, in which he discusses the National Security Agency, a United States Intelligence organization.
The term "Puzzle Palace" refers to the NSA at Fort Meade, Maryland.
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The Other Side of Midnight
The Other Side of Midnight is a 1973 novel by Sidney Sheldon. The book reached No.1 on the New York Times Best Seller list. It was made into a 1977 motion picture of the same name, directed by Charles Jarrott. The cast included Marie-France Pisier,...
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- 1973
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Patriot Games
Patriot Games (1987) is a novel by Tom Clancy. It is chronologically the first book (predating the events in The Hunt for Red October) focusing on CIA analyst Jack Ryan, the main character in almost all of Clancy's novels. It is the indirect sequel...
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The Firm
The Firm is a 1991 legal thriller and the second novel by John Grisham. It was his first widely recognized piece of work, and in 1993, was made into a film starring Tom Cruise. Grisham's first novel, A Time to Kill, was successful but did not bring...
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The Cobweb
The Cobweb is a 1996 novel written by Neal Stephenson with Frederick George. In early editions it is credited to the pseudonym Stephen Bury.
When Clyde Banks, an Iowan Deputy with a newborn baby and a wife in the first Gulf War, starts looking into...
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- 1996
Date of first publication:
- 2005
ISFDB ID:
- 5703
Interface
Interface is a 1994 novel by Neal Stephenson and George Jewsbury. It was originally sold with the author pseudonym of Stephen Bury, then reissued as being by Bury and J. Frederick George, and most recently as being by Stephenson and George....
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- 1994
Date of first publication:
- Apr 1, 1994
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- 3065
Digital Fortress
Digital Fortress is a techno-thriller novel written by American author Dan Brown and published in 1998 by St. Martin's Press.
When the United States' National Security Agency's code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious and ingeniously complex...
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- 1996
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Coma
Coma is Robin Cook's first published novel, written in 1977. The book was a New York Times best seller and was also voted as the number one thriller of the year by the New York Times.
It was made into a highly successful film, Coma by Michael...
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- 1977
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- 430931
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The Last Don
The Last Don is a novel by Mario Puzo, best known as the author of The Godfather.
The story alternates between the movie industry and the Las Vegas casinos, showing how the Mafia is linked to them both.
The last plan of Don Domenico Clericuzio, an...
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- 1996
