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- 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.
- Jumper
series6 books1992
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Jumper follows David Rice, a teenager who discovers he can teleport anywhere he's been and uses the power to escape an abusive home, only to find that ability alone doesn't solve the harder problems of finding his absent mother, building an honest relationship, or staying off the radar of people who'd exploit him. Steven Gould's series continues across Reflex, Impulse, and Exo, later following his and his wife's daughter as a second-generation jumper. A 2008 film loosely adapted the first novel.
- 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.
- 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.
- Nemesis Saga
series8 books2012
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The Nemesis Saga is a series of six kaiju thriller novels written by American author Jeremy Robinson, featuring the massive Goddess of Vengeance Nemesis. Robinson noted that various classic kaiju films especially those featuring Godzilla and Gamera were big influences on the series.
- Congo
Michael Crichtonstandalone novel1980
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WorldCat: On an expedition to return Amy, his talking gorilla, to her home in the Congo, Professor Peter Elliot is joined by others who hope to find a legendary diamond mine guarded by mutant gorillas.
- Richard Forthrast
series2 books2011
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Neal Stephenson's Richard 'Dodge' Forthrast novels open with Reamde, a globe-spanning thriller that starts when ransomware inside an MMORPG economy pulls Richard's extended family into a real-world hostage crisis involving hackers, jihadists and Russian mobsters. The sequel Fall; or, Dodge in Hell shifts registers entirely, following Richard's digitally preserved mind after death into an afterlife simulation built from his scanned brain. The two books share a protagonist and family but differ sharply in genre and scale.
- The Caretaker Trilogy
series3 books2006
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The Caretaker Trilogy is a series of science fiction thrillers with an ecological theme, written for young adults by David Klass. The first book in the series, Firestorm (2006), was the first book ever endorsed by Greenpeace and was praised by critics for its combination of entertainment value and environmental message, garnering an American Library Association (ALA) Best Book citation, a starred review from Publishers Weekly, and a favorable review by the New York Times Book Review. The story focuses on Jack Danielson, a teenager sent back from the future to save the world's oceans. Whirlwind, the second book in the Caretaker Trilogy, tells the story of Jack's efforts to save the Amazon rainforest; published in March 2008 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The third book in the trilogy is Timelock, published in 2009.
- Temple
Matthew Reillystandalone novel2001
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Temple is a thriller novel written by Australian author Matthew Reilly and first published in 1999. Like Reilly's other books, Temple's major attractions are the fast pace and the complexity of the action scenes.
- 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.."--
- Tripods
series4 books1967
completed
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The Tripods is a series of young adult science fiction novels by John Christopher. The series takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where humanity is enslaved by "Tripods"—gigantic three-legged walking machines piloted by an alien race later identified as the "Masters". The first two books were the basis of a science fiction TV series, produced in the United Kingdom in the 1980s.
- Jimmy Coates
series6 books2005
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Jimmy Coates is a series of children's books written by the English author Joe Craig. The books have been published in many countries and became widely available in the United States for the first time in 2013.
- Gemini Game
Michael Scottstandalone novel1993
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When players of their virtual reality computer game fall into a coma, Liz and BJ O'Connor, teenage owners of a computer games company, flee from the police in an attempt to locate a copy of their game and correct the programming.
- Dirk Pitt
series12 books1973
completed
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Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt novels follow the title character, a two-fisted marine engineer and de facto field agent for the fictional National Underwater and Marine Agency, through globe-spanning adventures mixing undersea salvage, historical mystery, and international conspiracy. The run collected here spans The Mediterranean Caper (1973) through Valhalla Rising (2001), the earlier stretch of a series Cussler continued for decades with later co-authors.
