Stone Cold*
The third novel in this David Baldacci series is every bit as thrilling as it’s predecessors, The Camel Club, 2005, and The Collectors, 2006. Oliver Stone, who is a former CIA assassin known as John Carr, is distracted from his Camel Club activities. DHS staffer Harry Finn is murdering members of Stone’s former unit, Triple 6, and Stone could be next.

Empire Rising
Sam Barone’s novel is an action-packed thriller set in ancient times.

Spy: A Thriller*
Ted Bell’s second Hawke novel takes Lord Alexander “Alex” Hawke up the Amazon to fight terrorism and find a missing MI-6 agent.

The Man With The Red Tattoo*
Raymond Benson’s 007 adventure has James Bond in Japan with the prime minister, an evil villain, and beautiful women.

Dangerous Ground
Larry Bond has created a techno-thriller featuring a submarine, which should be decommissioned, sent on a secret mission into Russian waters. 

Strike Force*
Dale Brown and series character Major General Patrick McLanahan keep readers on the edge of their seats in this military techno-thriller. Readers also may be interested in Brown’s novels featuring Army Major Jason Richter.

Ghost Dancer: A Thriller
John Case (The Genesis Code, 2005) has a knack for creating edge-of-your-seat tension. In this novel, there are terrorists motivated by revenge and hatred of the U.S. as well as a very unlikely hero.

Bad Luck and Trouble: A Jack Reacher Novel*
Lee Child continues to deliver thrills and suspense in the eleventh book in the Reacher series. Army ex-cop Jack gets an SOS from a member of his old Army unit and sets off to Los Angeles to investigate.

Breakpoint
Set in 2012, this techno-thriller is by former counterterrorist tsar Richard A. Clarke (Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror, 2005).

Dragon Fire
William S. Cohen, former U.S. Secretary of Defense under President Clinton, writes about terrorism and a terrifying global alliance against the U.S.

Sharpe’s Fury: Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Barrosa, March 1811*
Bernard Cornwell takes Captain Richard Sharpe and his military adventures to Cadiz, Spain, on a mission for the Duke of Wellington’s younger brother.

Cat and Mouse
Harold Coyle pits U.S. Army Ranger Unit led by Capt. Nathan Dixon against Philippine terrorists in an action-packed, realistic military thriller.

Treasure of Khan: A Dirk Pitt Novel*
In Clive Cussler’s 19th Dirk Pitt adventure, Pitt is nearly killed, a survey team is abducted, and his vessel is sabotaged and almost sunk. From Siberia to Mongolia and the Gobi Desert, the action never stops. Cussler co-authors the Kurt Austin series (The Navigator: A Novel from the NUMA Files, 2007).

Spider Mountain*
Acclaimed author Peter T. Deutermann has written a number of adventure thrillers (Darkside, 2002 and The Firefly, 2003). This is his second action thriller featuring Lt. Cam Richter, following The Cat Dancers, 2005. 

The Warlord
Richard H. Dickinson puts aging General Jackson Monroe (who many think is modeled on Colin Powell) into the middle of a firestorm with Afghan warlords.

Cry Havoc*
Clive Egleton’s British SIS intelligence officer Peter Ashton now has a desk job in Eastern Europe, but returns to action when his friends and colleagues are endangered by leaked information, chemical agents, and terrorists.

Act of Treason*
Vince Flynn’s character Mitch Rapp, a CIA intelligence officer and assassin, investigates the bombing of a motorcade in Washington, D.C.

Hornet Flight
Ken Follett revisits World War II in this suspenseful story of the Danish Resistance group called the Nightwatchmen.

Kings of Many Castles: A Charlie Muffin Thriller*
Brian Freemantle brings back series character, MI6 agent Charlie Muffin. Freemantle is also the author of the suspense novel Triple Cross, 2004.

Raising Atlantis
Thomas Greanias has written an absorbing and thrilling science fiction novel involving the lost city of Atlantis, Antarctica, and some questionable characters on the run from the military.

The Hunters*
This W.E.B. Griffin series character is Army Major Carlos “Charley” Castillo, who takes orders directly from the president. Griffin is the author of the Men at War and other series.

Without Mercy*
Jack Higgins, who has written numerous suspense novels, puts Sean Dillon and British intelligence officer General Charles Ferguson back into the midst of Russian oil interests, picking up where Dark Justice (2004), left off.

The 47th Samurai: A Bob Lee Swagger Novel*
Stephen Hunter brings together his two pro-action protagonists, Earl Swagger (Havana, 2003) and his son, Vietnam vet Bob Lee Swagger (Time to Hunt, 1998). No Swagger fan will be disappointed.  

The Last Prophecy*
Jon Land continues his Ben Kamal series as the UN sends Ben and partner/love Danielle Barnea to investigate a Palestinian massacre.

Legends: A Novel Of Dissimulation
Robert Littell writes a witty psychological thriller about a former spy with multiple identities.

Orbit
John J. Nance sets his latest thriller in the near future. The year is 2009 and Kip Dawson is on a doomed space flight. Nance is the author of other fine thrillers, including Saving Cascadia , 2005.

21: The Final Unfinished Voyage Of Jack Aubrey: Including Facsimile Of The Manuscript
Patrick O’Brian died before he could complete 21, which he intended as a follow up to the Jack Aubrey adventure Blue At The Mizzen, 1999.

7 Deadly Wonders
Matthew Reilly’s Golden Capstone is an ancient artifact that will prevent the natural disasters associated with the Tartaus sunspot. It’s missing and Jack West, Jr.’s team joins the race to find it in this wild action-packed adventure.

Unto the Breach*
John Ringo combines science fiction with action in the latest novel to feature former SEAL Mike Harmon.

Hunter Killer*
Patrick Robinson has a knack for the military/techno-thriller, and fans will not be disappointed as Arnold Morgan, now retired, tries to thwart a Saudi coup.

The Judas Strain: A Sigma Force Novel*
James Rollins’ third Sigma Force novel has special ops scientist Gray Pierce battling the Judas Strain, an ancient plague.

The Secret Servant*
In Daniel Silva’s latest in the Gabriel Allon Series, art restorer/Isreali agent and assassin Allon goes to the Netherlands to clean out the files of murdered professor and secret agent Solomon Rosner.

The First Commandment: A Thriller*
Brad Thor’s best-selling series features Scot Harvath, a former Navy SEAL and counterterrorist superagent.

The Dark River*
John Twelve Hawks has created a world reminiscent of “The Matrix” in his Fourth Realm trilogy. Gabriel and Michael Corrigan are Travelers, members of an ancient clan of mystics. In their search to find their father they have polarized, one for the greater good, the other bent on destruction.

Bloodline: A Repairman Jack Novel*
F. Paul Wilson’s Jack is a paranormal “fixer.” In this part-horror thriller, Jack stumbles upon unwelcome surprises when he agrees to break up what seems to be an abusive relationship.

*part of a series

Other authors whose adventure novels you might enjoy:

Richard Aellen
Tom Clancy
James Clavell
Craig Thomas
Len Deighton
Gregory S. Dinallo
Robert Ludlum
Richard Marcinko
R. J. Pineiro
Henry Porter
Philip Shelby
Joe Weber

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JHL
Rev. 10/07