Thriller/Suspense

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Tension, danger, and fast-paced plots.

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The Year of the Locust by Terry Hayes

In Terry Hayes’ The Year of the Locust, a sprawling espionage thriller, CIA Denied Access Area spy Ridley Kane ventures into the volatile borderlands of Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan to extract an informant with critical intelligence on a rising terrorist threat.

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I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes

Terry Hayes’ “I Am Pilgrim” is an intense, globe-trotting thriller that seamlessly integrates espionage, mystery, and high-stakes action.

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The Bancroft Strategy by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Bancroft Strategy, agent Todd Belknap seeks kidnapped friend Jared Rinehart, intersecting with Andrea Bancroft's probe into her family's foundation and enigmatic Genesis, unveiling a utilitarian cabal.

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The Ambler Warning by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Ambler Warning, agent Hal Ambler escapes a psychiatric facility, discovering his identity erased.

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The Tristan Betrayal by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Tristan Betrayal, agent Stephen Metcalfe infiltrates WWII Moscow to sway a German general against invading Russia, rekindling a romance with ballerina Lana amid Nazi pursuits and betrayals.

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The Janson Directive by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Janson Directive, ex-agent Paul Janson rescues philanthropist Peter Novak from terrorists, only for the mission to fail spectacularly.

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The Paris Option by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Paris Option, co-authored with Gayle Lynds, Covert-One's Jon Smith hunts a DNA computer after a lab explosion in Paris.

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The Sigma Protocol by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Sigma Protocol, banker Ben Hartman and agent Anna Navarro uncover a WWII-era cabal, Sigma, manipulating world events through assassinations and age-reversal tech.

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The Cassandra Compact by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Cassandra Compact, co-authored with Philip Shelby, Covert-One agent Jon Smith pursues a stolen smallpox sample from Russia.

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The Prometheus Deception by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Prometheus Deception, retired Directorate agent Nick Bryson learns his covert career was a lie, manipulated by a rogue agency.

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The Hades Factor by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Hades Factor, a gripping medical thriller co-authored with Gayle Lynds, a deadly virus threatens global catastrophe.

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The Matarese Countdown by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Matarese Countdown, retired CIA agent Brandon Scofield is drawn back into action when the deadly Matarese organisation resurfaces, aiming for global economic domination through mergers and assassinations.

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The Apocalypse Watch by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Apocalypse Watch, American agent Harry Latham infiltrates a neo-Nazi organisation plotting to revive the Fourth Reich.

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The Scorpio Illusion by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s thrilling novel, The Scorpio Illusion, set in the early 1990s, Amaya Bajaratt, a brilliant but ruthless terrorist known as the Baj, seeks revenge against the world’s superpowers for personal and political betrayals.

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The Road to Omaha by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Road to Omaha, the hilarious sequel to The Road to Gandolfo, General MacKenzie Hawkins, the wild and wacky “Hawk,” is back with another crazy plan.

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The Icarus Agenda by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Icarus Agenda, a heart-pounding political thriller, Colorado congressman Evan Kendrick goes undercover in Oman to infiltrate a terrorist hideout and rescue American hostages during a chaotic 1980s Middle East crisis.

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The Aquitaine Progression by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Aquitaine Progression, a massive Cold War thriller, international lawyer Joel Converse gets entangled in a deadly conspiracy when a mysterious figure in Geneva drops a bombshell: a secret military cabal called the Aquitaine is plotting to take over the world.

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The Parsifal Mosaic by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Parsifal Mosaic, a heart-pounding Cold War thriller, intelligence officer Michael Havelock’s world crumbles on a moonlit Costa Brava beach.

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The Bourne Ultimatum by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Ultimatum, the epic conclusion to the original Bourne trilogy, Jason Bourne faces his toughest challenge yet.

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The Bourne Supremacy by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Supremacy, the thrilling sequel to The Bourne Identity, Jason Bourne, now living peacefully with Marie St. Jacques in Maine, is dragged back into a dangerous game when a mysterious impostor using his name causes chaos in Asia.

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The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Identity, a heart-pounding spy thriller, a man is pulled from the Mediterranean Sea with no memory, bullet wounds, and a microfilm in his hip pointing to a Swiss bank account.

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The Matarese Circle by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Matarese Circle, a thrilling Cold War mystery, two top-secret spies, American Brandon Scofield and Soviet Vasili Taleniekov, bitter rivals with a shared past, must team up to stop a mysterious global plot.

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The Holcroft Covenant by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s thrilling novel, The Holcroft Covenant, set in the late 1970s, a New York architect named Noel Holcroft stumbles upon a shocking secret. He’s the heir to a massive fortune linked to a clandestine agreement made by his Nazi officer father and two others during World War II.

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The Chancellor Manuscript by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Chancellor Manuscript, a heart-pounding conspiracy thriller, novelist Peter Chancellor, mourning the loss of his family, uncovers a terrifying rumor: FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s death was no accident...

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The Gemini Contenders by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s epic World War II thriller, The Gemini Contenders, a secret vault filled with ancient documents that could shake the very core of Christianity is smuggled out of a Greek monastery in 1939.

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