Tag Archives: thriller

Joanne Leedom-Ackerman’s Burning Distance

Posted on 24th September 2023 by Warner Holme

Joanne Leedom-Ackerman’s Burning Distance is a new volume from an experienced and multi-talented hand. Sold as a thriller, and dealing with events surrounding, before and shortly after the original Gulf War there is little in the way of avoiding calling … Continue reading →

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James Swallow’s Shadow

Posted on 16th August 2021 by Cat Eldridge

James Swallow’s Shadow is a gripping thriller in the style of classic Tom Clancy or Robert Ludlum. The plot begins with the escape of a white supremacist terrorist leader, and the kidnapping of a North Korean defector with brilliant skills … Continue reading →

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P.J. Tracy’s Deep Into the Dark

Posted on 19th June 2021 by Warner Holme

Deep Into the Dark is P.J. Tracy’s first volume in a new series following LAPD detective Margaret Nolan. It is more on the thriller side of the equation than the traditional mystery, with a quick moving plot and a cast … Continue reading →

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Lavie Tidhar’s Unholy Land

Posted on 5th December 2020 by Richard Dansky

I’ve been a fan of this author ever since I listened to the oh, so fantastic alternate history of his Bookman trilogy, with its Britain ruled by an alien reptile Royal family, and where every character that you know out of pulp fiction is real. … Continue reading →

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Tanya Huff’s Peacekeeper: #1, An Ancient Peace; #2, A Peace Divided

Posted on 16th August 2017 by Robert

Tanya Huff has started a new series, a spin-off of her Confederation novels, again featuring now former Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr leading a group of her former Marine comrades. Kerr may be out of the Marines, but she hasn’t left … Continue reading →

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Glen Cook’s Starfishers

Posted on 8th August 2017 by Robert

Starfishers continues the story of Masato Igarashi Storm and his vendetta against the Sangaree begun in Shadowline. Compared to its predecessor, it’s a very different kind of story.

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Dave Hutchinson’s Europe at Midnight

Posted on 26th May 2016 by Richard Dansky

The reference that gets used most often to describe Dave Hutchinson’s Europe in Autumn is John le Carre. Now the sequel, Europe At Midnight has arrived and the comparison is even more apt. Like le Carre, Hutchinson excels at telling stories of … Continue reading →

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Adam Hall’s The Striker Portfolio

Posted on 13th April 2016 by Richard Dansky

Adam Hall’s espionage agent Quiller is the sort of man who makes Jason Bourne look like a strip-mall rent-a-cop. He makes James Bond look like a school crossing guard. He makes, well, you get the idea. Quiller is hard, and … Continue reading →

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