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- Joe Ledger
series63 books2008
part of Night
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Jonathan Maberry's Joe Ledger series follows a former cop turned special operative for a black-ops unit fighting bioterrorism threats that routinely turn out to be supernatural or genetically monstrous, beginning with Patient Zero and its zombie-outbreak plot. Later books widen the threats to rogue AI, genetic supersoldiers, and other high-concept horrors, with numerous other authors contributing spin-off novellas and short fiction to the same continuity. The series sits within a wider connected universe of Maberry's horror-thriller fiction.
- Duke de Richleau
series4 books1933
completed
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The Duke de Richleau novels follow Dennis Wheatley's aristocratic adventurer and occultist across four decades of twentieth-century intrigue, moving from a 1930s rescue thriller in The Forbidden Territory into Satanist set-pieces such as The Devil Rides Out and Strange Conflict, then a later case in Gateway to Hell. Wheatley wrote the books out of order over nearly forty years, but their internal chronology matches the order they were published in.
- Shane Schofield
series5 books1998
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Shane 'Scarecrow' Schofield is a US Marine captain who leads his unit through single-location, high-body-count action thrillers set in an Antarctic ice station, a disputed Pacific island, and a maximum-security prison built into a mountain, among others. Matthew Reilly's series opens with Ice Station (1998) and keeps escalating its set-pieces across Area 7, Scarecrow, Hell Island, and Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves. It's fast, gleefully over-the-top military action rather than realistic technothriller territory.
- Gregory Sallust
series4 books1934
completed
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Dennis Wheatley's Gregory Sallust novels follow a resourceful, ruthless British secret agent operating against Nazi Germany, beginning with Black August's vision of a Britain collapsing into anarchy and continuing through wartime espionage across occupied Europe. The series, spanning the 1930s to the 1960s, mixes political thriller with Wheatley's taste for scheming villains and narrow escapes.
- Doc Savage (Patterson and Sitts)
series2 books2022
part of Doc Savage
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The Perfect Assassin and Murder Island relaunch the pulp-era Doc Savage character for a contemporary thriller readership, with James Patterson and Brian Sitts pairing Doc Savage's inventor-adventurer legacy with the crime-thriller pacing and superhero-adjacent stakes Patterson's imprint is known for. Both books reached the New York Times bestseller list on release. As part of the wider Doc Savage franchise, they sit alongside decades of earlier pulp and paperback revivals of the same character rather than starting the concept from scratch.
- H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds
universe65 books1898
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No one would have believed, in the closing years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely from the timeless worlds of space. And then the cylinders fell. H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds opens in the quiet of the Surrey commons, where a falling star proves to be the first Martian craft — and from the pit rise the towering tripods, the Heat-Ray, the choking Black Smoke and the creeping red weed, wielded by minds that regard mankind much as we regard the creatures we boil for supper. This is invasion rendered as natural disaster: cold, methodical, and vast beyond argument. Wells' 1898 novel is the seed; everything else grows from that Martian soil. The catalogue gathers direct sequels and continuations alongside a wide field of other hands. In War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches the invasion is retold across the whole planet through the eyes of Twain, Verne, Tolstoy, Lowell and Kipling; in the Manly Wade and Wade Wellman crossover, Sherlock Holmes, Watson and Professor Challenger take the field against the machines; and Scott Washburn's Great Martian War stretches the fighting into a decades-long alternate history of steam, artillery and grinding attrition. It is a loose shared world — no single decreed sequence, many voices answering one calamity. What sets this world apart is its refusal of heroics: the invaders fall not to generals but to the smallest things of Earth, humbling and indifferent. Begin, always, with Wells' original novel — it is short, and it is the ground every later book stands upon. From there follow your appetite: Global Dispatches for the panorama, the Holmes campaign for adventure, Washburn for the long war.
- The Eyes of Heisenberg
Frank Herbertstandalone novel1966
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Tens of thousands of years in the future, Earth is ruled by the Optimen, a genetically engineered aristocracy that has made itself functionally immortal, while ordinary people, the Folk, live under strict reproductive control. When Harvey and Lizbeth Durant arrive to have their embryo genetically screened, the examining doctor finds something in the child no one has seen in a very long time: real potential for both fertility and life span, traits the Optimen have arrogated to themselves. Rather than destroy the embryo as policy demands, the doctor hesitates, setting off a chain of surveillance, suspicion and resistance. A tightly wound Frank Herbert thriller about genetic caste and rebellion.
- The NUMA Files
series6 books2004
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Clive Cussler's NUMA Files novels follow Kurt Austin, leader of the National Underwater and Marine Agency's Special Assignments Team, and his colleague Joe Zavala, through globe-spanning adventure-thrillers mixing action, exotic locations and speculative science. Lost City finds them investigating a life-extending enzyme discovered deep in the North Atlantic, and the string of deaths and disappearances surrounding its discovery. Zero Hour, Nighthawk and the following novels continue Austin's missions, later written with Graham Brown after original co-author Paul Kemprecos.
- Dr. Palfrey
series28 books1942
completed
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Dr. Palfrey follows Stanislaus Alexander Palfrey, a doctor turned intelligence chief who leads Z5, a secret international organization formed to counter wartime espionage and escalating global threats. John Creasey's long-running series follows Palfrey and his agents across nearly four decades, moving from Cold War-style thrillers in its early volumes toward science-fictional, near-apocalyptic dangers later on.
- Assassin's Creed (Oliver Bowden)
series8 books2009
part of Assassin's Creed Universe
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- Fail-Safe
Harvey Wheeler & Eugene Burdickstandalone novel1962
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Fail-Safe is a bestselling American novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. Expanded from Wheeler's short story "Abraham '59", it was initially serialized in three installments in the Saturday Evening Post on October 13, 20, and 27, 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- Tin Men
Christopher Goldenstandalone novel2015
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"In the near future, the U.S. has deployed the Remote Infantry Corps: thousands of robots remote-piloted by soldiers whose bodies lie hidden in underground bases. But the worst occurs when anarchists set off a global pulse that shorts out electrical connections. In Damascus, Private Danny Kelso, Corporal Kate Wade, and their platoon realize they are trapped inside the Tin Men--something the government never warned them could happen. In Athens, the G20 Summit comes under fire, and a band of security soldiers and advisors risk everything in an effort to shepherd the President to safety. As chaos descends, and with anarchist Bot Killers on their trail, the Tin Men must survive a gauntlet of violence on the road from Damascus to the heart of Europe, half of them determined to stay true to their mission and save their president, half of them hellbent to save themselves.."--
