Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads
By David Morrell & Hank Wagner
Oceanview Publishing
$27.95, hard cover, 378 pages, 978-1-201915-56-4 (2010)
This book presents an interesting concept: pick history’s biggest thrillers and let today’s biggest thrill writers tell you about them. Edited by David Morrell (of Rambo fame) and Hank Wagner, Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads takes a look at some of the most suspenseful and exciting writing of all time through short essays (generally just a couple of pages) written by today’s top writers like: David Baldacci, Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, Tess Gerritsen, Michael Palmer, James Rollins and many, many more.
Books examined include works hundreds of years old, like: The Illiad and the Odyssey, Beowulf, and Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Works over a century ago include: Robinson Crusoe, Frankenstein, The Last of the Mohicans, Dracula, and The War of the Worlds. More modern novels include such best sellers as: The Postman Always Rings Twice, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, From Russia with Love, The Andromeda Strain, Deliverance, and The Day of the Jackal.
Finally, familiar blockbusters of the last few decades include: First Blood, Jaws, Marathon Man, Raise the Titantic!, The Hunt for Red October, Misery, The Firm, Absolute Power, The Da Vinci Code, and many others.
No matter what your taste in reading, this compilation of the best thrillers of all time will expand your reading sources by introducing you to new books and different authors. It’s sure to give you hours and hours of entertainment. Who knows, it may even prompt you to grab that long-forgotten best seller and once again delight in the power of a top-notch writer to transport you to a world of the author’s imagination.
Enjoy the ride.
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